Rob Tart explains in this video that even though he had many faults, David did many things well. He was a man after God's heart and he prepared his son, Solomon, to take over the throne after he died. That is something that fathers today can learn from the life of David. David showed humility and love for his son.

1 Samuel 16:13 (NKJV) - "Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah."

What did David do right as a father? Well, he did many things right. He was a man who worshiped God. He was a man who wrote so many of the Psalms. There's no doubt his children were affected by his life and he was a godly man, a man after God's own heart.

Many of those things were contagious, I'm sure. His children knew of the Lord, his children knew how to worship the Lord. The thing that stands out to me at the end of his life when David so wanted to build the temple and the Lord said no you're not going to build the temple there's too much blood on your hands. He knew it was going to go to Solomon. Instead of being jealous, as many kings would be, instead of being someone who, you know, no doubt people want to build things as a testimony of their own existence.

This was going to be Solomon's temple, it was going to be David's temple. He could have been jealous, but he wasn't. Actually what he did was he lined things up, he prepared his son for it. And I think that's what fathers must do. We must help our children, prepare our children, and then help them.

And I think that's some of the things that David did right.