Every now and then I come across a list of “laws.” Laws such as: The Law of Mechanical Repair: “After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will start to itch,” or The Variation Law: “If you change lines or traffic lanes, the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now.” And this one: The Law of the Last Word: “Hey, watch this!”
Most of the ‘laws’ make me laugh. Recently, one really made me think. It is the Law of Location: “No matter where you go, there you are.”
The writer of Chronicles tells us where we can find the circumstances or events of David’s reign. “As for the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, note that they are written in the Events of Samuel the Seer, the Events of Nathan the Prophet, and the Events of Gad the Seer, along with all his reign, his might, and the incidents [circumstances] that affected him” [1 Chronicles 29:29-30 HCSB]
But when Paul peached at Pisidian Antioch, he could have talked about all the events and circumstances that David experienced. Instead, he tells us about David’s heart — how God testified “I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart who will do all My will.” [Acts 13:22 HCSB]
Too often, we are more concerned with the circumstances we find ourselves in than we are about the condition of our hearts. We keep praying for God to take us out of our circumstances, but even if God does take us out of our present circumstances, unless we change, nothing changes — “no matter where [we] go, there [we] are.”
Our hearts must change; we must change. We must have hearts after God’s own heart just as David had. Then it won’t matter our circumstances.
