No, I’m not talking about one of the greatest moments in cinematic history. I’m talking about certain passages in the Bible that always leave me feeling disappointed, let down by the characters in the passage. Do you know what I mean? Are there folks in the story who do things that leave you shaking your head?
Adam and Eve…poor start. Samson…what a spoiled & selfish man-child. King David…first there was Bathsheeba & Uriah, then there was today’s passage from the LifeJournal reading plan:
About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him. Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” 1 Kings 1:5,6
How does a man who gets called “a man after God’s own heart” never discipline his son–ever? David might have been a model for a lot of good stuff, but his family was a wreck. I don’t want to rule the country if it means my children are going to get lost in the jetwash.
It breaks my heart for David. I know that we only have part of the story, but there’s hardly any way to put a spin on this so that it comes out as a positive. David did a lousy job of parenting/fathering his sons, and that left them with some tragic flaws that would devastate them later in life. I am sure that no matter how much he accomplished in his lifetime, he had to look back with regrets over his sons.
I want to learn from David’s mistakes so that I don’t make them with my family.
And here’s that moment of magnificence I mentioned above.
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