“Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” God reminded Samuel that the human mind has an overwhelming tendency to make assumptions based on appearances. God’s choices don’t always make sense to us, but they are never haphazard or random. A few considerations about David shed light on why God may have chosen him. The genealogy David and Christ shared was of obvious importance. In Matthew 1:3, we see that both David and Christ were descendants of Judah, one of the sons