The Chase

I recently joined in on a new Bible study at our church, a study by Jennie Allen titled “Chase”.  Jennie is teaching us about the life of David, while also challenging us to examine the things we tend to chase in life that are not God.

David is a pretty well-known Bible character.  If there were newspapers during Bible times, David surely would have made quite a few headlines.  He, as a young boy, defeated a giant named Goliath.  He became the king of Israel.  He authored many of the Psalms.  David’s also famous for some pretty big sins including adultery and murder.  And if it I were the editor of that newspaper, I would have made this our biggest story: David is the one person in the Bible famous for being a man after God’s own heart.

“God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart…’ ” –Acts 13:22

We’ll all stand before God one day.  Don’t you want to hear that from him?  That he considers you a woman after his own heart?  I do!  But I gotta tell you…if he called me home tonight, I’m pretty sure that isn’t the greeting I’d hear from him.  In all honesty, I tend to chase other things more than I chase after God.  Purpose, love, comfort, just to name a few.  I tend to be more concerned with my kids and my husband, even my house and my wardrobe sometimes more than I am concerned with the heart of God.

Solomon, one of David’s sons, wrote this verse in the book of Ecclesiastes:

“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind” –Ecclesiastes 1:14

I feel like I’m just chasing the wind sometimes.  Chasing meaningless things that just don’t matter in the light of eternity.  But I don’t want to.  I’m so excited to continue on in this study and learn how to be more like David, a man after God’s own heart.  In the meantime, I made this color sheet with Solomon’s wise words on it.  It’s going to hang in my office as a reminder to focus on chasing what matters.  If you’d like to print a copy for yourself, you can download the pdf right HERE.