This is a question that appears every day. The circumstances of life, the responses demanded each instant bring us to this constant question. What man must I be?
At times I am taken by this uncertainty: What man should I be? I want more than just always to reach for what my heart yearns.
In simple situations many times, where I have the opportunity to assert the good of man in the image and likeness of God, in which I was created, truly the man that I should be, it ends with me facing my limits, it appears that I return to point zero before finding the response to this question.
However, we encounter in our biblical persons the response to this question: What man must I be?
In the book Acts of the Apostles, we find: “I encountered David, son of Jesse, man near to my heart that will do everything according to my will” (Acts 13:22b)
We encounter man according to the heart of God. Yes David was this man near to the heart of God, not in an exclusive way, but to bring in his character the spiritual qualities of the man near to the Heart of God.
We run across these qualities.
- Sincere and true: David was authentic and cultivated these interior qualities;
- Having intimacy with God: David was free to be in communion with God;
- To be centered on the will of God: David sought the divine choices for his life.
Today we need to guild our life with the principles that guide man’s life according to the Heart of God.
God bless your journey
Alex Silva
translated from Portuguese