After King David\u2019s affair with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan told him, \u2018The sword shall never depart from your house.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a012:10\u00a0NKJV) And it happened. His son Amnon raped his half-sister Tamar, and because David had lost his moral authority at home, he did nothing about it. When his other son Adonijah staged a coup, his father \u2018never crossed him at any time by asking, \u201cWhy have you done so?\u201d\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a01:6\u00a0NASB) If ever there was a time David needed to be a husband and father, this was it. <\/p>\n
As a leader he unified Israel, won wars, and brought the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem. But with his own family, he blew it. No wonder he \u2018went up by\u2026 the Mount of Olives, and wept.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a015:30\u00a0NKJV) When he heard of his son Absalom\u2019s untimely death, he cried, \u2018If only I had died in your place!\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a018:33\u00a0NKJV) And when he faced death himself, instead of sending for his wife and children, his servants hired a \u2018young woman\u2026 and she cared for the king.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a01:4\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n
The man who made strangers of his own family died in a stranger\u2019s arms. It\u2019s too late to change David\u2019s story\u2014but not yours! If you succeed in your career and fail at home, your achievements will be hollow. Apart from your relationship with God, your first priority should be to love your spouse and dedicate yourself to the children in your care. David wrote, \u2018I will lead a life of integrity in my own home.\u2019<\/i> Sadly, he didn\u2019t live up to these words. But by God\u2019s grace, your<\/i> story can be different!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After King David\u2019s affair with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan told him, \u2018The sword shall never depart from your house.\u2019 (2\u00a0Samuel\u00a012:10\u00a0NKJV) And it happened. His son Amnon raped his half-sister Tamar, and because David had lost his moral authority at home, he did nothing about it. When his other son Adonijah staged a coup, his father […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}