1 Chronicles 21:5. And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it.
There is no way of helping young people to serve God like setting them a good example. Let the father feel, with regard to his son, that he is young and tender; he may not be able to begin, but if I begin, I shall get him in the mode of doing such things, and maybe he may carry out my design when I am sleeping in the grave. It was well, it was wise, it was splendid of David thus to make all preparations that Solomon might afterwards go on with the good work.
1 Chronicles 21:5. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
If you cannot do everything yourself - and who can? - is it not well to prepare abundantly before our death for somebody else to go on with the work? Thus shall we live after we are dead - live in our sons, if God be so good to us, live in our grandchildren, who knows? - live in someone we were the means of bringing to the Saviour’s feet by our ministry. Then he called to Solomon, his son. He had prepared everything, and now he speaks to him, and he charged him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:5. And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it.
There is no way of helping young people to serve God like setting them a good example. Let the father feel, with regard to his son, that he is young and tender; he may not be able to begin, but if I begin, I shall get him in the mode of doing such things, and maybe he may carry out my design when I am sleeping in the grave. It was well, it was wise, it was splendid of David thus to make all preparations that Solomon might afterwards go on with the good work.
1 Chronicles 21:5. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
If you cannot do everything yourself - and who can? - is it not well to prepare abundantly before our death for somebody else to go on with the work? Thus shall we live after we are dead - live in our sons, if God be so good to us, live in our grandchildren, who knows? - live in someone we were the means of bringing to the Saviour’s feet by our ministry. Then he called to Solomon, his son. He had prepared everything, and now he speaks to him, and he charged him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.