Psalm 145

I'm going to need your help today. First thing this morning. Let me get this book.

There is a psalm in the book of Psalms that, according to all the historians, is the crown jewel of all the psalms. It was the favorite of King David. I started this study over a year ago. I was not sure where this was going to take me. It took me over a year to bring this into a full understanding after looking at the history. Many of you have read quite a lot or heard or grew up with stories about David. Am I correct? Yes. You've read other things besides the Bible. There are movies.

Any of you have seen any movies about David? Yes, faith has. You have. Richard Gere starred in one that I can remember. I don't know who starred in the other ones. There were some ones when I was growing up. Lyman, you probably have seen movies about David. Old ones. I wanted to give this message today because it is preparation for the spring holy days as we are only six weeks away.

I wanted to do this because I didn't quite finish this book. I got this stuff and then I went about a third of the way and then I finished and went to the last third of the book. Read the other half. The book is called David the King. The book was actually written in 1946.

It became a top seller. It was the most famous book written by the author. I found this when I was up in Tennessee, not in my library, but in my mother's book. This was one of my father's books. She said, take anything that you want. My father was like me. He read quite a bit. He looked and found this book. From what I say, he never really opened it. He never really got a chance to read it.

I decided, well, I don't think Dad ever got into that one. I'm going to take it and I'm going to read it. I started reading it and I got to this page where my yellow note was here, which is about a third of the way through, and just stopped. I was so perplexed because it had great detail. That's what kept me going into it. It had amazing detail.

But there was something wrong, something all wrong with this thing, as the author would describe David, Jonathan, and all the people involved in this story of David the King. I actually quit and thought, I don't want this in my head. Then one day I was on the Internet and I looked up the author and looked up this book. Then I found that it was unique for its day because it was known as the first in America to be released Biblical Homo Erotic book.

And that David had a very intimate relationship with Jonathan. So I just went towards the end and was finding out when he got married and all this kind of stuff.

And so it gives you a distorted view of David, very much so. So I will ask you today to help me as we clear this story. David was a unique individual and I'd like to get you to tell me, perhaps best described as David as his job description, what he did. Anybody care to start out? Shepherd? Alright, that's the first one I had. Shep heard. Okay? What else? A musician. My pen. Okay? Well, okay, let's get into that next.

I got another sheet for that. Looking at the jobs that he did. Neil? Well, I wouldn't call that a job, but some people do. A lawyer. I'll agree with that one. Spelled that wrong. Okay. Anything else? King. Very good. King. Because he did. He was a king. Okay? He was also, you said, a musician and a what? Poet or a composer. Yes? What? Well, I have to agree. Yes? Well, that would fit under King. Okay? Well, that would be a warrior. True, because the king did. They brought the ones to the king.

Yeah? A judge? Yes? Okay. Anything else? I think we pretty well covered most of that. Okay? So we understand what he did during his lifetime. Shepherd, king, composer, musician, judge, prophet. But I'd like to look at something else now. What's that? Oh, we're going to go into that. Yes. Let's go with David. And can you tell me some of his characteristic traits? A worshipper. Very good. Okay. Well, that would be... Well, that would be...

Okay.

It says loyal. Diligent. Oh, fine. Brave. Well, yes, I guess you would have to say that.

Smart, repentful, respectful. Honest and experienced. Straightforward. Don't play games. Great shooter. No small talk. Thank you.

He's not like our typical politicians in today. You say discerning. Okay. Humble. I think that kind of comes with man after God's own heart. I think we get that. But, yeah, humble humility is...kind of starts before we can be a man after God's own heart. Anything else?

I don't know the shower part, but okay.

Senser.

Anybody else?

How about protective? How about because you're passionate? Would that be because... Yes, he loved. He was a passionate person, wouldn't you say?

No? I wouldn't think so. Yes. He was, as you said, compassionate also. He was anointed. I wouldn't say that's a characteristic, but...yes. Okay. I would have put also, in my own mind, impetuous, which kind of fits in. He would all of a sudden make a decision sometimes and probably regret that, even being anointed. That was kind of a bad decision a couple of times. But over his lifetime that we actually have, we knew he lived to be 70, and he came on the scene at kind of somewhere around 15. So we had 55 years of his life, and you can count on your hand the major mistakes he made. I can't do that. I don't know about you. Major mistakes I've made. They're more than my hands, my toes, and everything else. So I think he gives us something here. Okay. So we're getting to see this David as...would you say complex? Complex personality? He was definitely not a simpleton.

He came from a simple background. I'm glad you brought that up there. Faith, because there's a man by the name of Stephen McKenzie. He is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Rhodes College, and the author of a book called King David. And it's a biography that he spent years putting together and is out there. You can get it. But he goes at this from quite different than you guys kind of described, because he puts David in a box. And he makes a statement that David actually came from a wealthy family. I think that's a narrative that you can argue not. His father sent plenty of food to his brothers. He had raised sheep, but I don't know that you could say he was wealthy. But he came from a wealthy family. He was ambitious, something you didn't put down here. Right? And something else you did not put down here said he was ruthless. Just showing your perspective. And he was a tyrant who actually murdered his opponents, including his own son. Did you start talking about the same dude? Well, that's why I wanted to give this message today. Because the other thing that David was very human. I think all of you can attest to that if you've read and studied about David. David was a husband. Right? You brought that out. How many wives did he have that we know?

Eight wives beside the concubines. Eight wives. And we know from the story of Solomon, there were at least 16 of us. But he had eight wives. How about the children? How many kids did David have that we know that's written in the Bible? Anybody? I guess. Eight? Anybody else? Nineteen boys. And we know of only one girl. So you're locking at 20. He was a passionate man. And I think it's interesting to note that we know that through his lineage, Jesus Christ came onto the scene almost a thousand years later. And it's through one of David's sons that this lineage was carried on. And I have to tell you, as only during the last week did I really realize what son it was that carried on the lineage. Very good. Nathan! Nathan! And I realized, but I didn't realize that Nathan came from Bathsheba, which is also in Matthew, because it tells that. So it wasn't Solomon. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I'd always had it, that Solomon and then Rehoboam and just thought the lineage. But I was wrong. So we all learn various things.

Well, it's not in the script, but okay.

So, fully, we understand a little more about David. So I ask you the question today as we profile David. Is there a little of David in all of us?

Or is there a lot of David in all of us?

Because, as was mentioned, he's a man after God's own heart. And few, if I can make this statement, few that I have read or even understood about, have ever understood God's mercy as well as David. He was a man that understood God at a very deep level that I find very few have. And it's probably one of the traits and the things that he did that I would like to have more of. And as we do this message to prepare for the spring holy days, I want to go into today Psalm 145. And it's called the Praise of David because it's not praising David, it's the praise of David. And it stands unique in all the Psalms. I won't go into that today because that's a totally different message about not only the acrostic composition of this Psalm, but I want to go into his message to us.

So I will read, if you will turn with me to Psalm 145, I will read actually today from the New Living Translation. I will also have my King James here present and handy. But your words may be a little bit different, depends on the translation. I'd like to read this from this as we go through this and ask you a few questions that you might want to write down there so that you can do an evaluation of yourself. Just like we kind of put one together of David.

And it kind of measures us as, are we a person, are we a man or a woman after God's own heart? David was one of the things that people, we left out, and it's something that we cannot leave out because we cannot leave it out of our lives, is that David was, take away a handful, obedient. He was obedient and he sends that message all through his work. And so I want to make sure that we get this, that it just isn't this all touchy-feely because David was a man who believed in obedience. He even knew the soldiers under him were so obedient they would obey him to death.

So let's go to Psalm. Psalm 145, the New Living Translation. I will exalt you, my God and King. It's unique right there. He says, my. I will exalt you, my God and King, and will praise your name forever and ever. Do we? Do we understand when he says, I will exalt your name and then I will praise you forever and ever?

And a lot of this praise you can actually, from here, you can actually go into the Hebrew word that I won't go into today because it's another message in itself. But it's where we get the word hallelujah.

When we say hallelujah, and you hear that quite often, it is hallelujah was actually believed in the Hebrew that you didn't just say hallelujah, brother. The only time you would praise at that level was when you praised God. That hallelujah was actually close to, and so wonder they didn't make it, a sacred name, a sacred word. And that this is part of David's psalm here. That he was raising this to such a level, and that God needed to be raised up to such a level, and that we need to praise him. And I've actually found since going through this and going through this, that, brethren, it has sure helped me, and that's why I wanted to give it. I have to say, I did not and have not been praising God, as I should have.

And this psalm put it so, smacked me in the face, that I want to be a man after God's own heart. And I want to be able to praise that way. And I don't need to be ashamed of it. I want something, oh, well, I'm a religious man. Well, we're all religious people.

I don't know what happened.

Okay, so when he says in verse 1, I will exalt you, my God and King, and will praise your name forever and ever. Forever and ever, that's eternal. Forever and ever. It's not like, oh, you know, it's the Sabbath. Praise God.

It doesn't end praising God at sunset tonight. It's a part of our life. With David, this is him. It's the sum of him. And in verse 2, he said, I will praise you every day. I'm guilty. I haven't praised God every day. You know, there's been days, yes, I've praised him, but there are other days where I just went complaining to God. I've had issues. I've had issues with myself. I spent all time talking about me, even though I knew what Christ said when this is the word of God. And the way you pray, hallowed be thy name, he started out with. But I'm still... I'm so human.

And it helps me appreciate David a lot more. How did he stay so grounded? Three or four major problems in 55 years. I'm just... hell, we know, I'm 57 years old, and I've got... had so many.

I will praise you every day. Yes, I will praise you forever. Forever. You know, it's a must. I need to do that. I need to spend, as I prepare, as I'm examining myself, there's something I need to work on. I need to praise God.

Great is the Lord. He is most worthy of praise. No one can measure his greatness. We sing a song that's totally inadequate. And I realized that when I went through the words last night, how great thou art. It's a praise of God, but it's not... no matter what we pray, he is so much greater than anything. We just do not recognize him as that, as often as we should, every single day. Can you imagine? Great is the Lord. He is most worthy of praise, and no one can measure his greatness. Obnition, omnipotent sovereign, everything. We cannot put enough words into describing it. If we saw his presence, even a little of it, yeah, we would be using words like Shakespeare invented, what, 3,000 words they'd never heard before. We would have been inventing words. Is this why there will be a perfect language when the kingdom of God is here? Because there are going to be so many words to describe the majesty, the magnificence of God. And see, David put this in a psalm so people would sing this, so people would remember, so they would sing this and even have it in their minds and in their heads so that they might be singing something during the time they were not before God. It's behind comprehension. It's mind-boggling. Just how great God is. You know, it was interesting when I was in Dominica for a couple of days this week. And Tuesday night we had a Bible study. Well, Tuesday the prime minister of Dominica came back from a six-week tour of India. And so this was all on the radio, being they didn't have TV. And so the people I was staying with, they had it on the radio and so they wanted to introduce us. He came back in this, they had this big parade and they had everything welcoming back. And these people got up before him. One was a man, one was a woman, introducing him. And that took over an hour introducing and telling how great this man was. How everything he had done for the country and everything he was. And they went on and on and on and on. That actually turned to the gentleman there and said, well, man, you don't need Jesus Christ. You got this guy returning. Because it made it sound like he was going to make everything. And I thought, wow! The people came up and sang and everything else. Then the guy got up and he actually spoke for only 15 minutes. But I thought, wow! All these people will do this over a human. You know, when it should be, you know, this is a praise that should be towards God. Verse 4, let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts. Let them proclaim your power. Do we hand God down? That sounds strange. Do we hand God down to our children and our children's children? This is what it's talking about. Are we the ones that the young kids come to?

Because there's something holy about us and that our reverence of God is so crystal clear that everyone can see it and they know it. And they know that we honor that and we do what the best we can and we want to even do more. Mighty acts, what are they? What has God done for you over your lifetime? If you were to write it down, if it was a test on, sorry, if you can't name a hundred acts that God's done for you in your life, guess what? Don't make it in the kingdom. I'm going to bet you'd be thinking, mm-hmm. Yes.

You know what's sad is that age is so mocked today. There's a movie out. I've not seen it, of course, but it was advertised on the plane. And it was, what was it? Dirty Grandpa. Dirty Grandpa. And it has Robert De Niro and the stars. And it's about this lecherous old grandfather who, according to the thing, takes his grandson out and shows him how to have a good time. Partying. Corrousing. All this kind of stuff.

You know, where is the time that your grandfather is someone that sits below Jesus Christ as a leader, as an example to look to because he looks to Christ? I had one grandfather like that, and I had another who wasn't like that. And so I so appreciate. I had one up here when I was growing up because of...was he a necessarily godly man? No, but he was an honest man, and he treated his family well, and there was so much there. My other grandfather, while he was scoundrel. But I had to respect him anyway. But you see, this is what David's trying to say. I want to hand...we need to be able to hand that down.

We need to make sure that these kids back here, which Maurice was talking about, getting them into the Bible and teaching these mighty acts, the God, and show that there is a God in their life. Can you imagine God hearing the praise because it says that he's praised daily by the angels.

And then he looks down at his greatest creation. It's not the angels. He looks down his greatest creation with over 7 billion, 7.2 billion people. And how many people are praising him? But no, no, they can praise athletes. They can praise all this. They can praise all this. But they can't praise him. Isn't it time that we are the main praisers of God on earth? That God actually hears it? And that he knows, guess what? My children over here, and they actually praise him. I guess it just rang true to me this week that I have never praised God like those people were praising the Prime Minister of Dominica. I should be ashamed because I know who God is. I just became complacent. I just began to just not think much about it until David. Verse 5, I will meditate on your majestic, glorious splendor. Look at the adjectives. Majestic, glorious splendor. I'm going to meditate on it. Today, nobody wants to meditate. Why? Because you have cell phones. You can have something in your ear. You can have something in your hand that keeps you constantly entertained or keep you busy. Why meditate on God? It's because he is who he said he is. And I think, as David realized, and you can go back to 2 Samuel 6 and 5 and 6 and then 7, and you can actually read this incredible story of David turning as he was bringing Judah and Israel together as he was fighting and the kingdom was about to be his. And before he'd go to battle, he'd ask through the prophet God, what do you want me to do? Even though he had this glorious army with these mighty men and he was such a warrior, he knew it was not him that caused that. Boy, did that make me think after reading this and reading that exactly where this came from? Because he knew it was God who was the glory. God had the power. God was a majestic one.

And God even told him, he was going to go do this battle and he said, well, I'm going to go do it this way. Is that okay? And God said, no. Go around and instead of meeting him, just circle them. Yes. This will be on the tree. And then let me take care of the rest. And it doesn't even say what happened, but it was just a massacre. David looked to God because he was a man after God. Do we look to God because we are a man, a woman after God's own heart? That everything we see, everything we do is because God is there right with us. Because we know who he is, we know what he is, we know how powerful he is. And there isn't any doubt that he didn't create this. It's sad. Verse 6, Your awe-inspiring deeds will be on everyone's tongue. And why? Because I will proclaim your greatness. Because when a king talks, people listen. Wouldn't we love to have a righteous man be our king, our president today? There would be no money worries. There would be no terrorist worries. There would be none of this. As a matter of fact, it even said there in Samuel 6-7 that when God brought him in and he brought everything in, he said, I'm going to give you peace all around. You don't have to worry anymore. Isn't that what we all want? But your awe-inspiring deeds will be on every tongue because I will proclaim your greatness. We need to proclaim his greatness more. Everything that happens in our lives, and I know many of you because being here four years, I've worked with you with different things. I look at Faith when she was going through some jobs and all this kind of stuff, but she never kept the thought that I've got to do this by myself. She knew she needed God, and he was. You've seen wonderful things, not only her life, but many of your lives, from health to all these various things. This comes from this. We need to proclaim his greatness. We need to praise him. You ever had somebody just tell you how many times they appreciate you? Someone gave me a card here today about being a good pastor. Thanks for being a good pastor. That's touching to me. Very touching to me because I don't...I'm just doing my job, but I want... People appreciate. Well, how much more does God appreciate when he has at least seven billion people that do not appreciate him day in, day out?

Verse 7, everyone will share the story of your wonderful goodness. They will sing with joy about your righteousness. Whoever said he was a prophet, I think you're right. I think that time is coming when everyone will sing about it. But those who are around us, they should hear that, shouldn't they? They should hear it from us, our relatives, everybody. When something good happens, guess who made it happen? It isn't us. It isn't this dirt put up in a six-foot frame. It isn't me. It's everything that's from God.

The Lord is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. Wow!

He is. You know, I have four names down here. When I think about those who declare his greatness, because it is, because even this... See, the Lord is merciful and compassionate. I know that. He is so merciful. God is about mercy. Mercy triumphs justice every time. Look at the story of Jonah. Jonah wanted justice, and God said, no. I'm just...but these people turn around and they want to repent. These pagan heathen murdering people changed. And I will show mercy before justice. Mercy trumps justice every time in God's mind. Does it trump in our minds? Mercy, showing mercy, instead of...let me get back with them. You know, there's a woman in Nashville, Tennessee named Frances Robinson, who just lost her mate of 50-something years. She got married when she was 15. He was 21. I told him he'd go to jail for that today. He was a deacon. She's deaconess. But you know, all the time I've ever known Frances Robinson, which has been almost 40 years. She...over 40 years. And even to talk to her today, when I went and visited them when he was dying of cancer, he died just a few weeks later. She was talking about how merciful and how great God was to her. And she looked at this house, which is a simple house, and she said, Yeah, but you know, God was so gracious to us for giving us this house 40 years ago. Everything she...everything about her mind. I even thought in my own mind, a time or two over the years, that this woman is...that she's just too much.

And the problem wasn't her. The problem was me. The problem was me. I'm like, well, why do you have to be that? You know, that's just a little over the top, right?

No. And she...she just constantly says things. I mean, I talked to her. Now I try to call her every two weeks because her husband died, and I just want to touch base with her. And I am so empowered when I get off the phone with her. And I have another one, Susan Duquert, back in Tennessee, that just...she's always what God's done. What God's done. What God has done. Every day, every time I skype her, she's like, wow, you know, things are tough, but boy, God did this. God did that. The guy just visited Augustus Joseph and Dominica. The thing kept going through his mind was, boy, you know, God gave me this house, and he's let me live 80 years. You know, he is so good to me. He said that...must have said that 10 times while I was there. You know, man, and Chuck, God is just so good to me. He is so merciful.

I look at a man like E.B. Scott, who had first funeral, I think I ever did. And I was there with his grandson. His grandson was this little kid. And as him, a little kid, he would come and visit his grandfather, his grandpa, and he would go in, and he found his grandpa kneeling in the room. He went into another room, and he saw him kneeling. And that left such an impact on him. But he was always praising God because this man didn't...he had very little... And even at the end, he was talking about...he was in a room, I visited him, and he was dying, and he was just in this home, and it was depressing and everything else, and all he could talk about was how good God was to him, and how great God was. Brethren, those are the people we need to be more like because that's what David's like.

David was a man after God's own heart. And someday, I pray that when I pass on, someone can at least say, Chuck was a man after God's own heart. I have a long way to go, but I need to go there. Don't you? Don't you want to go there?

God is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He's describing God as...well, because we don't have that kind of relationship that he had with him. But if you want to have that relationship with God, all you need to do is to follow David's example here of... Praise him, and open up your eyes, and I had to open up my mind to just how great God is and what he's done for me.

Verse 9, The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation. All of his works, all your works will thank you, Lord, and your faithful followers. Or as the new King James says in verse 10, it says, All your works shall praise you, O Lord, and your saints shall bless you. We are the saints of God. Are we blessing God?

This isn't Catholicism. We go, Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, which is totally blasphemous. But in the Hebrew, the word bless means it's actually the word barak, and it actually means to have a good word, to say a good word.

Do we say a good word to God every day?

Verse 11, They will speak of your glory, of the glory of your kingdom. They will give examples of your power. They will tell about your mighty deeds and about your majesty and the glory of your reign. For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. It is coming, Daniel 2, verse 44 says, And it will break apart any of those that came before, and it will last forever.

And he says, You rule throughout all generations. Even though there's been the Roman Empire, the Macedonian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, God still ruled. He let them. He let them do that.

Because it's just a small little, slight dust to him. But they thought they were big.

The Lord always keeps His promise. He is gracious in all He does. The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads. You've had a load lately? Well, guess what? You're going to have some more loads. Wouldn't you like somebody to know that they're going to come along and take that load off of you?

The eyes of all look to you in hope, and you give them their food as they need it. When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

We can hunger and thirst for righteousness when we do. We will praise God. We should. Is this what it leads us to? And talking about falling, haven't we all? You know, kind of falling sometimes has taken us a little while to get up. Maybe it's a spiritual problem, financial problems, physical problems. We've all had some of these things. And we actually need it. And it's amazing how humble we can become when we're down, isn't it? And God knows that. I had a man tell me one time in the Caribbean before God came into his life and called him. I don't know how old he was in his forties. He'd lived a long-lived life. And he said, you know what I always felt like? Because I didn't know why I was here. I didn't know the purpose. There was always from one problem to another problem. And I didn't understand. He said, I felt just like that turtle turned upside down. And he said, my feet just going like I didn't know. I couldn't get old. I couldn't do anything myself. That's what God's done for us. He's come to us, and he's picked us up where we were on our back, and he puts us back. And he restores us, as he says, right? That's what it's all about. It's incredible.

Verse 17, the Lord is righteous in everything he does. He is filled with kindness. He's righteous in everything he does. Not just some. He'd say, well, why did God allow me to go through that? Because he's righteous. Because it's the right thing for you at the right time. Because this is just a little blip we're passing through on the road through eternity. And you know, it's amazing. I mean, anytime you stop to think, why did he call me? Stop thinking and start praising. Because that's where it starts, and that's where it ends. The Lord is righteous in everything he does. He is filled with kindness. The Lord is close to all who call on him. Yes, to all who call on him in truth.

The right thing. Doing what's right. Obedience. See, it starts with obedience. God needs to see. Yeah, he's going to call us, and he starts working with us, and we've got some things to straighten out in our lives. And then, as we go down the road, we keep that. But it starts with, does he...he sees...can you at least be obedient? I give you these simple ten things to do. Ten things not to do. And the Ten Commandments, and I give you this other...he sees whether we actually want to change and do these things. And if you do, oh man, is he happy.

Is he ever happy?

Verse 19. I'd like you to write something down. I don't want to turn there because I don't want to take up too much of the time. But if you turn to Psalm 34 and verse 15 later on, and then you read 15 and then 16 and then 17, you'll realize that he's telling us that just cry out. And perhaps we don't cry out enough. We cry out because something's wrong, but it said, I gotta go there. 34. Psalm 34. I gotta go there. It's so empowering.

Plain hit a real rough patch in one of the flights I was on, and I happened to be reading Psalm 34. Because it was just like jumping back and forth. Psalm 34 and verse 15. In the eyes of the Lord, watch over those who do right. His ears are open to their cries. But the Lord turns his face against those who do evil. He will erase their memory from the earth. The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their trouble. The Lord is close to the broken heart. He rescues those whose spirits are crushed. And then he says, the righteous people face many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time. I start to think, God, this plane's yours. I'm yours, all this is yours. Take me on through to St. Lucia. Psalm 145, verse 19. He grants the desires of those who fear him. He hears their cries for help and he rescues them. He grants the desires. Then I remind you of Psalm 37, where he says, he knows even your heart's desires. Before you even ask, he knows what you need. He knows what you want. He wants to hear it from you and he wants to hear that you know how you can get it, if it's right for you. Powerful. Verse 20, the Lord protects all those who love him, but he destroys the wicked. Do you really love him? There's a show. Show in your actions.

And finally, verse 21. We come into this incredible psalm. I want to read, though, from the New King James, because I like how it says, because this needs to be us. It says in the New King James, my mouth. My mouth. What's in your wallet? What's in your mouth? What's on your tongue? Okay. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh shall bless his holy name forever and ever. And why will they? Because they hear it from you. This is a psalm for us. Just like the Francis Robison, the Susan Duquard, the Augustus Joseph, the E.B. Scott, whose impression on me is I couldn't finish this sermon without writing their names down. Because they were the ones that so praise. They so praise God. Every little thing went, I actually looked at some time and go, that's not even worth.

And that's my problem. That was my problem. Brethren, the little things, the big things, they all come from God. When we know that, when we live that, and when we show that, we will be doing just like David, because we will be a person after God's own heart. And that's what he looks for.