Have a Perfect Heart

We need to have a perfect heart before the Lord. How can we have a perfect heart before the Lord, there is no way we can be perfect. We will mess up because of the sinful nature in us. That is exactly what the devil wants you to believe! Did you know that David had a perfect heart with God? Yes the same David who committed adultery with Bathsheba, who then had her husband Uriah the Hittite killed. God told us that David had a perfect heart with the Lord God. We read this in 1 Kings 15:3 “And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father” Why did God regard David has having a perfect heart with Him? We are told the reason why David had a perfect heart in 1 Kings 15:5 “Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”

Notice that it was because David followed after God and obeyed the Word of Lord all the days of his life, except when he had Uriah the Hittite killed. We see through the life of David that he always went to God for guidance, and when given that guidance, he did what was required of him.

Meditate on this, to be perfect in heart, only requires us to obey the Word of the Lord. Yes we will mess up, that is okay. David messed up quite a few times, and yet, God regarded David as having a perfect heart with Him. Whenever David messed up, he immediately went to God to confess and repent of his sin. The only time David didn’t, was with Uriah. Nathan his seer, had to tell him that he messed up.

Dig into the God’s Word and obey His commandments, and like David, you will have a perfect heart with God.