King David known as being a man after God’s own heart. God was David’s everything. He had a relationship with God unlike no other. I believe David being the youngest of his brothers was some how isolated from them and all he had in his life as a companion and friend was the Lord. His responsibility as a shepherd to the many sheep, the Lord has always been with him. With no mention of David’s mother and his relationship with his father all I can think about is Psalm 27:10, “When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up,” he wrote. David’s faith in the Lord was unmovable like that of the love of God for him, which is undeniable. David is proof that we can be high in the spirit of Lord, but sin through temptation and weakness of the flesh can bring us down so low if we’re not careful and discipline not allow the devil access in.

I believe the residue of the evil that Saul possessed fell on David when he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and murder her husband Uriah his faithful soldier of his army to cover up his sin. What happened to David that could of caused him to fall? Let us take a look Saul who became Paul.

Saul was on the way to Damascus to persecute Christians when strucked down by a blinding light. Saul is a murderer of Christians and the Lord Jesus chose him to be his apostle and to show many things he must suffer for his name sake. Saul who’s name changed to Paul Act 13:9 after being strucked down by the blinded light, suffered the same faith he’d inflicted on many Christians, by hunting them down and murdering them. Paul finished the course set before him by the Lord in all his works. He is one of the most prolific writer of the New Testament of the bible.

How is it that Paul this murderer of Christians unlike David, was not considered a man after God’s own heart, but some how was able to stay his course with the Lord, but David didn’t? The Lord helped me to understand according to 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (NET) “Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me so that I would not become arrogant. I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me. But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

I believe that if King David would have had a thorn in his flesh, he wouldn’t have fallen short and not complete his course. Paul thorn wasn’t only to keep him humbled, but to subdue him also by the power of the Holy Spirit to do the will of God. It took the life and death of Jesus to make it so much easier through him for us all to overcome every temptation that leads to sin and rebuke the devil.