I just finished reading your book ‘Cries of the Heart’ about the life of King David. Isn’t interesting that this family misfit became such a great warrior king and that God would ensure that Christ would evolve out of David’s bloodline—‘out of the house of David would come the world’s savior—Jesus Christ’. How is it that this man from such a lowly background would become the King of Israel and would be talked about for 3,000 years.
The book really magnified the life of King David beyond the pages of scripture and made him very real and lifelike to me, the reader. It was as if David became a hologram in my own dimension. He became a real lifelike person that I, as the reader, could relate to. I could identify with him and the enormous struggles and conflicts he faced down time and time again—always turning to God for wisdom. What huge troubles he faced and how he always leaned on God for strength, strategy, and his extreme confidence in God’s wisdom and guidance. No wonder he was a man after God’s own heart. God was to David, his spiritual father, and he never seemed to make a move without first asking for guidance and blessing. How we should all learn to do this.
Having traveled throughout Israel and having seen the geography and various sights mentioned in the book, made the text even more meaningful. That was an advantage for me personally. The book was well researched and as a result, David was made even more real. He was the most spiritual man of his time up to the birth of Christ except for the prophets of that era.
But as the author pointed out, he did have human weaknesses like all of us. He wasn’t absolutely perfect and slipped a little with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, a consecrated warrior of King David’s army. But when faced with the accusation from Samuel the prophet, he was quick to come clean and take his punishment although he pleaded for the life of his baby with Bathsheba. It was a painful judgement and he prayed for days for God to spare his son’s life but to no avail. Somehow, I did not know that Solomon was the second son of Bathsheba and David and that this became the bloodline of Christ, ultimately.
I was amused by the author describing the struggles of her life and societies acceptance with her red hair and family roots and seemingly a parallel with David’s physical limitations, family outcast, and his red hair.
Thanks for the opportunity to review it. I’ve truly gained some spiritual insights and wisdom.
I just finished reading your book ‘Cries of the Heart’ about the life of King David. Isn’t interesting that this family misfit became such a great warrior king and that God would ensure that Christ would evolve out of David’s bloodline—‘out of the house of David would come the world’s savior—Jesus Christ’. How is it that this man from such a lowly background would become the King of Israel and would be talked about for 3,000 years.
The book really magnified the life of King David beyond the pages of scripture and made him very real and lifelike to me, the reader. It was as if David became a hologram in my own dimension. He became a real lifelike person that I, as the reader, could relate to. I could identify with him and the enormous struggles and conflicts he faced down time and time again—always turning to God for wisdom. What huge troubles he faced and how he always leaned on God for strength, strategy, and his extreme confidence in God’s wisdom and guidance. No wonder he was a man after God’s own heart. God was to David, his spiritual father, and he never seemed to make a move without first asking for guidance and blessing. How we should all learn to do this.
Having traveled throughout Israel and having seen the geography and various sights mentioned in the book, made the text even more meaningful. That was an advantage for me personally. The book was well researched and as a result, David was made even more real. He was the most spiritual man of his time up to the birth of Christ except for the prophets of that era.
But as the author pointed out, he did have human weaknesses like all of us. He wasn’t absolutely perfect and slipped a little with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, a consecrated warrior of King David’s army. But when faced with the accusation from Samuel the prophet, he was quick to come clean and take his punishment although he pleaded for the life of his baby with Bathsheba. It was a painful judgement and he prayed for days for God to spare his son’s life but to no avail. Somehow, I did not know that Solomon was the second son of Bathsheba and David and that this became the bloodline of Christ, ultimately.
I was amused by the author describing the struggles of her life and societies acceptance with her red hair and family roots and seemingly a parallel with David’s physical limitations, family outcast, and his red hair.
Thanks for the opportunity to review it. I’...
