This is exactly what David had, "another heart-- God's Heart." I have pointed out before what a Messianic Jew once said about the passage we often quote that David, "was a man after God's own heart." It is better translated, "David had God's Heart"---- a much, much better scenario. In fact this translation is totally aligned with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Who is not only with us but in us. All Which/Who is Jesus Christ is in all which/who is the Obedient Follower of Jesus. We really have no excuse for all the unbelief, sin, and turmoil in the Church.
I won't get into the "predestination" thing. But I don't believe Saul was "destined" to disobey, any more than you and I could say such. Yet over the years I have heard some who call themselves Christian say, and even some traditions have a theology excusing sin by asserting, "Well, I really had no choice; I couldn't help myself. God knows and forgives." I would certainly not take a chance on that.
The New Birth brings you and me, "another heart," another Authority, another life style, viz., a life of obedience to Jesus Christ and His "Law-Word." In Jesus Christ you and I have a "higher calling," what William Law described in his work, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. I am so very thankful for a Dad who read and passed on to me some such great works in Church History. The modern Church would be well advised to dust them off. I don't want to excuse my sin or even have them "passed over." I want them eradicated, and eradicated they were in the Blood of Jesus, the Body of Jesus, in the Cross of Jesus. "We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" !
Father, in Jesus' Name, I thank You for, "another heart," Your Heart. Help me, Holy Spirit, to protect Your new heart in me. Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
