HELEN SANDERS
3-10-2026
BE A PERSON AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART

Throughout the Psalms we see David either bringing praise to God for all his mighty acts or crying out to God out of his distress. He sought God’s heart for his life, and God blessed him because of it.

In Acts 13 Paul is preaching and in verse 22 speaking of King Saul, he said, “And when he had removed him [Saul as king], he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, ‘I HAVE FOUND DAVID THE SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MINE OWN HEART, which shall fulfil all my will.”

Paul was quoting 1 Samuel where the Lord spoke to Samuel in verse 7 after looking at David’s older brothers and seeing God reject them as the future king. It says, “But the LORD said unto Samuel, ‘Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; [King Saul had been taller than the other men] because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.'"

David was not tall like Saul. He was not a soldier. He was not the oldest, but the youngest. He was a shepherd that spent time out under the stars with sheep. He wasn’t thought of as anything but a “keeper of a few small sheep” (1 Samuel 17:28).

God is not impressed with our natural giftings or what we look like. It is not how beautiful we are physically. He looks at the inner man or woman’s heart, our spirit, where he sees us for who we really are.

Don’t determine your value to God by giftings or physical appearance. Your value is determined on how you love God. He will know if you are a person after His heart. He knows whether you forsake all others for Him. He knows the real you, my friend, and that is all that counts.

Be a person after God’s own heart, and you can never fail God.