When a shepherd boy named David stepped forward to kill the giant Goliath, no one, including his brothers, believed he could do it. He did, in the name of his Lord Almighty, with a single stone from a sling. Nobody saw that coming. They had told him to go home and watch his sheep.
God Himself called David a man after His own heart but David was not perfect. In fact, after God made him king he disobeyed God, committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband Uriah killed.
David’s sins were not without consequences but the fact remained: God loved David. Jesus would be born to David’s lineage. David would play instruments and write psalms to God. And David loved God.
God doesn’t see things like we do. We see the obvious, God knows what’s hidden. We see the plain, God knows the intricacies. We see what serves us, God sees what serves Him. We see a face, God sees a heart.
When Jesus returned to synagogue in his birth place, Nazareth, they rejected Him and threatened to throw Him off a cliff. We see the familiar. God sees the truth.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7
Meeting God at the Park 