My wife and I recently finished watching the first season of the new biblical series “House of David” on Amazon. The series was very well done, even though it doesn’t exactly follow the biblical narrative in places, along with some embellishments and liberties taken for dramatic effect. And while it only covers the beginning of David’s story, it was enough to get me thinking about him and his life in my morning devotional time.

I’ve written before about David and about how his true focus was on...