and the lives of your wives and concubines. 6 You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead.
Yes, despite the fact that his son was after his life, dethroned him and slept openly with his concubine, in a war between his army and his son’s army, King David still instructed the head of his army to protect Absalom. Nemesis, you would say, caught up with Absalom and he was suspended in the air by law of karma, before an angry warlord terminated his life. Yet, David still mourn this wicked son of his for months. What a strange heart of compassion (2Sam 18:5,12,14,29,33;
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David did not merely serve his own generation; he did so by the will of God. This means he demonstrated the characters of God as expressed in Ps 145:8-9.
Ps 145:8-9
8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9 The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
OFFENDERS ARE GODLY ORNAMENT
Never shut your door against offenders, to avoid shutting that same door against the trinity and deny yourself of holy protection and breakthroughs. May be you knew it as the story of the prodigal son but many refer to it as the story of the forgiving father.
In this story, a son wishes his father dead within a short time and therefore demanded for his inheritance by fire by force while his father was yet alive. Only to return to his father later and plead that he be made one of his father’s servants after squandering his own inheritance. Luke 15:20
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed