2 Samuel 7:22 – Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

King David had just learned that he would not be allowed to build the temple of the Lord because of blood on his hands… He was a man of war… who started as a mere shepherd boy, who killed the bear and the lions while tending his father’s sheep… He wasn’t “man’s” first pick to be king - he was God’s! He was the young teenage boy who when all of Israel’s army trembled in fear, stepped up to Goliath and killed the giant… 

David, after he was anointed to be king, spent years serving king Saul becoming Saul’s best general! But Saul became jealous of the young David’s anointing and his record in battle. The would be king had to run for his life from king Saul.

David was a man with many flaws of his own… But he had a repentant heart.  And God said of him that he was a man after His own heart… 

We all have a past filled with flaws… But by the grace of God, we all can become an Unexpected Warrior, just like king David…