Whom have I in Heaven but you?
And Earth has nothing I desire besides you.

- David (A psalm of Asaph 73:25 - NIV)

An epitome of David's devotion to God. Still can't get over this statement. Blows me away everytime because it puts so much in perspective. But I understand, partly, how he can have gained so much insight. Having acquired so much success as a very young man; from killing lions and bears to slaying the giant to being pronounced the next king. On paper, he really should have had a swollen head. He had more reason to be proud and arrogant, so much more than many of us do today.

Now, because character can only be built. Could it be that David needed to go through perilous moments before he reached his destination (i.e. becoming king)? Did he need to go through scary situations, times when control was completely out of his hands before he was approved and deemed ready to stake his claim? Did he need these perilous moments to learn how to cling onto God so much so that he could make a statement like the one above? A statement that oozes heavily a desire genuinely for nothing that this world has to offer. Could it be that in doing this he got given everything anyway? That law holds? That David, inadvertently called God's law into operation?

And so therefore, perhaps God in His infinite wisdom knowing that Character can only be built and not gifted, decided to take David through the turbulent times he went through to give him the character necessary to be a great king, whilst still holding onto his sense of 'nothingness', knowing fully well that only through David's complete surrender could God Himself be reached. Hmm .. I think so.

I pray that He helps us all to get our priorities and focuses right.

Have a blessed week.