Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
God Himself chose David as a man after His own heart.[1] And yet here God Himself accused David of despising Him.
A Christian can love God and despise Him at the same time.
What a contradiction, when one who has tasted the blessing of the Lord, enjoyed His love, and expressed love toward Him, demonstrates that he also despises God through an act of gross sin.
The man after God’s own heart might not be a description of the heart of the man but of the heart of God. This would be consistent with the doctrine of salvation which is entirely a product of the love of God. If the man ever loves God it is because He first loved us.
All who are saved might be called men after God’s own heart because it was His heart that saved us.
[1] 1 Samuel 13:14 (KJV)
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
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