AND DAVID PERCEIVED


 



AND DAVID PERCEIVED

 

 

Are you a glass, half full… or a glass, half empty type of person?

Some may say that it depends on the situation.

Some say it depends on how thirsty you are.

No matter the rationale behind it all… your PERCEPTION determines your reality. It doesn't matter if it is true, or not… how you PERCEIVE a situation, person, or life condition determines what YOU BELIEVE to be true and real.

Marcus Aurelius in his “Meditations” stated,

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

 

 

PERCEPTION is everything!

 

 

The Oxford dictionary defines PERCEPTION as, “the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.”

 

 

But what if there is another way to PERCEIVE which brings us into a way of processing life through THE TRUTH, rather that allowing PERCEPTION to define TRUTH?

 

 

2Sam5:12KJV records, “And David PERCEIVED that the Lord had established him king over Israel.”

                  …and THEN David starts to do “kingly” things.

 

WHY?

                  …because, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Pr23:7NKJV)

 

 

According to Strong’s, the word translated PERCEIVED is (yada), which means: To know, to understand, to acknowledge, to PERCEIVE.

 

 

 

Bible Hub’s Topical Lexicon explains further about the word “yada” under its “Scope of Meaning in Scripture”:

“(yada) saturates the Old Testament narrative, appearing in every genre—

Law, History, Poetry, Prophets—about 942 times.

The verb’s range stretches from simple awareness

to the deepest covenant intimacy.

By observing its distribution, one sees how KNOWLEDGE

is never treated as an abstract commodity

but as a LIVING, RELATIONAL REALITY

ROOTED IN GOD’S OWN CHARACTER.”

 

 

The first time (yada) appears in the Bible is in Gen3:5NKJV:

“For God KNOWS (yada) that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened,        

 and you will be like God, KNOWING (yada) good and evil."

 

 

The next discourse demonstrates a deeper meaning yet…

                   Gen4:1NKJV “Adam KNEW (yada) Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain..."

 

 

Thus, to “KNOW” often means to “CHOOSE IN COVENANT LOVE”. For instance, even though Gen18:19 states, “For I have CHOSEN him”, it literally reads, “I have KNOWN him.”

 

 

So... we discover that for David to PERCEIVE that the Lord had established him as king,

THAT“knowledge” and “understanding” came from an intimate relationship with YHWH.  

 

 

KNOWING he WAS CHOSEN, produced in David, not just an expectancy… but an assurance… allowing him to see from God’s PERSPECTIVE… to see how HE sees it… to KNOW WHAT HE KNOWS… to believe and PERCEIVE the way HE does…

…and then… act accordingly.

 

 

Ps46:10KJV “Be still, and KNOW that I am God”

          PERCEIVE WHAT HE PERCEIVES...

                  YADA!!!


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