7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in you.
What Do We Hope For?
What we hope for in our lives reveals what we hold dear and precious in our hearts. The objects of our hope say much about the desires of our heart. Our heart tells us what we value more. In the above passage, David confesses that he has nothing he hopes for more that the Lord, Himself. When God rejected Saul as King of Israel, He said He wanted someone who had God at the center of his heart:
1 Samuel 13:13-14 (ESV Strong's)
13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”
Who did God find? David! That is what makes the above passage so powerful. God said He would appoint someone who was a “man after His own heart,”. He finds David. David then begins to express back to God that God is his only hope. Of course, we know what happened to David. He allowed something he desired to replace God in his heart. The object was Bathsheba. We do this often in our walk with God. We “say” we want Him as our only hope and then what we “do” does not align with those words. David would repent of that sin and would find forgiveness with God. God would go on and bless David above all other kings of Israel. David would return to have God at the center of his hope. That is what God wants from us. He wants to be the center of our hope.
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