A Man After God’s Own Heart
I’ve been contemplating the life of David . . . and reading “A Tale of Three Kings” again by Gene Edwards. Here’s a few quotes that especially stuck out to me.
“There in those caves, drowned in the sorrow of his song and in the song of his sorrow, David became the greatest hymn writer and the greatest comforter of broken hearts this world shall ever know.”
“These were David’s darkest hours. We know them as his pre-king days, but he didn’t. He may have assumed this was his lot forever. Suffering was giving birth. Humility was being born. By earthly measures he was a shattered man; by heaven’s measure, a broken one.”
“If you are asking if I am a former thief and cave dweller and one who followed a sobbing, hysterical fugitive, then yes, I was on of the ‘mighty men of David.’ “