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The Bible tells us that David was a man after God's own heart, but what does that mean in practice? David, the Old Testament shepherd, king, and psalmist, offers an answer in the shape of his own incredible life. Poet, musician, courageous warrior, and national statesman, David distinguished himself as one of God's greatest men. He modeled invincible confidence in the face of impossible...

never in a hurry. Alan Redpath, the late pastor of Moody Memorial Church, put it this way: “The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”5 When God develops character, He works on it throughout a lifetime. He’s never in a hurry. It is in the schoolroom of solitude and obscurity that we learn to become men and women of God. It is from the schoolmasters of monotony and reality that we learn to “king it.” That’s how we become—like David— men