God sees our hearts and delights in our uprightness

Psalm 4:3-5

3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.

4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

In I Chronicles 20:17 David states that he knows his God sees his heart and delights in uprightness, and that in the integrity of his heart God see that he willingly made his offering to help build the house for ark of the covenant and for the Lord’s name.   Studying David’s life, I realize how much of his life was guided by one principle and that was by staying in God’s Word.  Psalm one hundred and nineteen gives us an understanding of the guiding principles of David’s life.  In Psalm one hundred and nineteen eight key words are used to describe God’s Word:  law, precept, testimony, commandment, ordinance, promise, statue, and way.  These principles were probably taught to David at an early age following the instructions given to the nation of Israel in Deuteronomy 6:7 “And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”  These words from the book of Deuteronomy as well as the other books of Moses probably laid the foundation for the guiding principles in David’s life.

In Ephesians 5:8,9 Paul states that we are to walk as children of light in all goodness and righteousness in all truth which is the fruit of the Spirit.  As a new creation our desires should no longer be for the things of the flesh (darkness), but the things of the spirit (light).  In Ephesians chapter five Paul gives us several examples of this walk: walk in love, avoid all uncleanness, have not fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, walk circumspectly, redeeming the time, and most important speaking to yourself in psalms, and hymns and spiritual sounds, singing and making melody in your heart.   We should heed the words of David from verse four “Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.”