David Reflection Essay

This has 6 verses, at first he questions God then he calls God out. But then he worshiped God, he thanks God. For the things he have done for him. David was feeling hopeless, so he called on God. Just like in Carrie Underwood- “ Jesus take the wheel”. The young adult called for God when she felt powerless.

Here we see David in his first major fall from grace. King David accomplished a great evil, a two-fold sin. Not only did he commit adultery, but also he also sent Uriah into battle so that he would be killed. David, being blinded by his selfishness, did not notice that he had committed a great sin in the eyes of God.

David knew that no amount of good works he had done, could rectify his guilty state before God. His position of prophet and king did not obligate God to him. David’s longing to be reconciled to God was granted by God’s compassionate acquittal of David despite his guilt. Moo explains that, “David’s words from the psalm confirm Paul’s basic point…a person’s relationship with God comes not by works but by God’s gracious act.” A further examination of David’s proclaimed blessing reveals the state of “being fortunate, happy because of circumstances, favored, and privileged.” William Sanday represents this state of blessedness well by stating, “…David in Psalm 32 describes how God pronounces happy (in the highest sense) those to whom He attributes righteousness without any reference to work.” Paul’s focus on the blessed state of the forgiven sinner in verse 6 is qualified by his citing of David’s proclamation of blessing in psalm 32:

King David, a man after the Lord’s own heart, I believe helped forge the great nation of Israel; he was handpicked by God himself and still fell short of God’s glory. His leadership was responsible for uniting the tribes, expanding Israel’s borders, preparing the city of Jerusalem for the organization of God’s temple, and all the while fighting his own character flaws. King David’s legacy followed his children through time as the example of how to lead, fight and stand on the Law which was handed down from God through Moses. I choose King David because he understood what it took to be a good leader; he also understood his people and the responsibility that it took to forge the great nation of Israel.

David also prays that God’s people can learn from God’s example. David is praising God, saying that there is no one like him and no other nation that compares to Israel. He asks that God will carry out his promises towards Israel- keeping his people as his own, forever. David ends his prayer by asking God for a blessing that David’s house will last

King David was a man that always looks after God and loved to be respectful to others, his spiritual connection to God was so powerful than any other rulers of the time. David was trusting, obedient and devoted king who looked after his people and took care of their needs. His kindhearted behavior toward the enemies was one his greatest strength. He was a gracious man who bears with the failure of others and loved to motivate people. David achieved many successes during his time in power and was well respected by people. Finally, David’s way to live life is a great example people can use to influence

It is interesting that he directed to the deity as "O God," not as my God. David had sinned and had no right to call Him that. He made his appeal to the compassion and mercy of God. He saw God as holy and merciful. David knew his sin had turned him away from God, who before this incident had a close connection.

While Saul and David were the only Kings in 1 & 2 Samuel, Samuel was most certainly a leader as well. From a young age, Samuel was a “prospect leader”. He was never a king but was the one who God told to anoint the kings. Samuel was a crucial person for the development of Israel. Samuel was the middle man for God and Israel.

The enemy (Amalekites) had come in burned King David and his man’s property down and took their wives, kids and things. The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but God comes that we may have life and have it more abundantly. His men were so grieved that they thought of stoning David to death. The men wept to they had no power to weep and this made them want to kill King David. The scripture says, King David encouraged himself in the Lord. This journey is going to be up and down and sometimes you will have no one to talk to but the Lord. King David had no one to talk to but God, because his men thought of stoning him. Life is like that when people think it is your entire fault they want

The Book of Psalms is the Book of Prayer. Whoever wants to learn to pray let him pray to David and whoever prays with the psalms, David shall be a teacher for him, how he should pray as a father that shall hold his son's hand to teach him how to write. In the Book of Psalms we know ourselves and the weaknesses and pitfalls that are in us and we find in this travel fall and the advancement of prayers of repentance and thanksgiving and praise. Psalms are filled with many prophecies concerning the incarnation, pain and resurrection of the Lord. It is the greatest witness to the life of the Lord Jesus, so Peter said that David is a prophet (Acts 30: 2).

The oldest story about David is found in I Samuel 16 which continues through the whole of II

Verse three outlines the start of the forming of David's band of miscreants; "Also joining him was every person who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. He became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him" (NKJV). David is now the leader of an unstructured group of men discontented with the current political situation. They had been wronged and mistreated, were under a curse of debt that they could not pay. They were not trained loyal soldiers, but like David, are so distressed that they have no option left except to run and hide from their problems (Swindoll, 1997, p.74; Epp, 1965, p.56). Psalm 57 indicates that not only were they hiding, but they were angry and wanting vengeance on those they felt had wronged them�. Keller (1985, pp. 120,121) suggests that it was in living with these oppressed outcasts that David developed his compassion for those living under oppression.

The bible is a book that is filled with 66 books that are all full of symbolism and imagery. The book with perhaps the most literary devices in it is Psalms. This book has 150 chapters in it also referred as “Psalms”. The writer of Psalms is King David. David was a man after God’s own heart and he knew many things that symbolizes God’s love. In the 19th, 23rd, and 91st Psalms in the bible, there are many examples of symbolism, personification, and imagery.

Historically, it can be inferred that this passage was not written at the very onset of King David’s reign. Even when the kingdom he ruled over was already flourishing, his opponents and detesters remained. However, from the steadfast, confident and faithful tone being used in these verses, it can be argued that the passage must have been written in the middle or latter part of his reign, when his relationship with God as both His subject and steward was at its peak, strengthened through the trials associated with temptation and issues on faith that David as a human being had struggled with earlier

The modern-day application of the entire Psalm 25 is to live a life that is filled with loving, living, and trusting in God alone. David knew that he went through in his life, the only person that would keep him safe from danger, love him unconditionally, and forgive him of his sins would be God and God alone. With God’s people today are faced with similar situations as David, they are running and hiding from Satan daily, but knows there is no way to escape Satan except under the love and security of Jesus Christ (Cole,2013). To trust in God, his children must confide in him about all that one faces on a day to day basis. For example, a man can go to the doctor and the doctor asks the man what is his illness, in order for the doctor to prescribe the