Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Samuel 23:14-18
by: Jasmine Lynch.
Parents, it behooves us to listen to our children and thus strengthen their love and devotion to us. Here we see a bonding of David and Jonathan’s relationship and a separation of Jonathan from his father. While Jonathan was making a second covenant with David to keep his location secret and expressing confidence in David becoming king, he was also demonstrating disloyalty to his father’s leadership. Ephesians 6:4 admonishes us, “Do not provoke your children to wrath” (NKJV). If we do, they will turn against us, which is exactly what happened in this father/son relationship.