The Lord Cares by Rodney Howard Browne
We have got David standing here nutty at the Lord, when, in truth, the Lord was annoyed at David.
About now you may be thinking, Well, I assumed you announced he used to be a man after God’s heart. Having a heart for God does not imply you are perfect, it suggests you are delicate. And when you see you are wrong, you accept it. The difficulty was that David hadn’t done his homework.
We regularly get into difficulty when we do not do our homework—when we think we see pretty obviously what the Lord’s will is, and so in expediency or in convenience ( sometimes in a rush ) we dash off to do it our way. And the Lord claims, “Look, I have written plenty of things in My Book about that call you made, and I would like you to take counsel from Me. If you need to have a heart for Me, then you check My Word, and you find either a precept or a principle then go according to that.
When you do that, I may give you joy like you can not believe. If you do not, you miserable.” actually, in David’s case, the Lord related, “I’ll even take some lives.”. They presumed on the Lord and did not take Him seriously. If he did not care, he would not have announced anything about it.
When we start to worry about the things God cares about, we become folk after His heart, and only then do we start to have real liberty and real contentment.
