Daily devotion – 31st August 2021
2 Samuel 14:24 – But the king gave this order: “Absalom may go to his own house, but he must never come into my presence.” So Absalom did not see the king.
A young man stood at the bar of a court of justice waiting to be sentenced for forgery. The judge had known him from a child. For his father had been a famous legal light and his work on the Law of Trusts was the most exhaustive work on the subject in existence.
“Do you remember your father?” asked the judge sternly, “that father whom you have disgraced?”
The prisoner answered: “I remember him perfectly. When I went to him for advice or companionship, he would look up from his book on the Law of Trusts, and say, ‘Run away, boy, I am busy.’
My father finished his book, and here I am!”
The great lawyer had neglected his own trust, with awful results.
As Father’s Day approaches let us remember to make sure that our children need us at ‘that’ moment!
As you read of David’s amazing rule as king of Israel, at home, with his son Absalom there was sad and tragic relationship that came about because of the neglect of David as a father.