I came across a list of “laws” a while back. 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’ made me laugh. 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 of David’s reign. “As for the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, they are written in the records of Samuel the seer, the records of Nathan the prophet and the records of Gad the seer, together with the details of his reign and power, and the circumstances that surrounded him….” [1 Chronicles 29:29-30 NIV]
When Paul peached at Pisidian Antioch, he tells us about David’s heart — how God testified “I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart.” [Acts 13:22 NIV]
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. 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 will not matter our circumstances.