This ministry that I started is based upon the heart of God and seeking God’s heart. How often do you hear an evangelist ask: “Who here wants to give their hearts to God?” When you give your heart to God, like any gift, He can do anything he wants with it and He does, He makes it like His own. However, we do have a free will and to receive this new heart we must ask Him for it. God does do that look at Jeremiah 24:7: “I will give them a heart to know (be intimate with) Me, for I am the Lord and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.” God can and will give you a new heart. You can have a heart like the heart of God if you join your heart to God’s heart. Yeah, I know there is a grammatical reason to repeat the Beth but I believe God has given us a built in commentary with these Hebrew words. It is taught by the sages that when the Beth is repeated in the word heart it indicates two hearts joined together. Exhibit one, the word heart has two Beths. If our Christian translators can play around with the Hebrew will so can I. We cannot have a heart just like God’s but we can have a heart after God or according to God. Do you see the problem? Can a human actually have a heart just like God? Most people find that problematic so to be safe the translator, recognizing the ambiguity of the Hebrew language has no problem adjusting their translations to their world view of God. In other words, David had a heart just like God’s. In the Hebrew text the word we render as after is simply a prefix to the word heart and the prefix is a Kap which means like or as. Translators will not give a direct translation because it would be a problem. The only translation I found that translated the passage directly from the Hebrew was the English translation of the Aramaic Bible or Targum which is an Aramaic translation of the Old Testament from the time of Christ. But they are just a commentary and not a direct translation. A couple says loyal to God’s heart and I would not say these are incorrect. The Hebrew does not say “after.” There are a couple of modern translations that will say according to God’s heart. Although he was truly a man who sought to know the heart of God. The first thing I would reply is that the Hebrew does not say “after” God’s heart. One of the most common questions I get as a Hebrew teacher is what does it mean that David was a man after God’s heart. I Samuel 13:14: “But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart.”
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