Father by lust

"The Lord struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and it became desperately ill. David pleaded with God on behalf of the child. He kept a total fast, and spent the night lying on the ground clothed in sackcloth. The elders of his house stood beside him to get him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them." 2 Sam 15-17.

David had fathered this child out of lust, committing adultery and then murder. And yet, when the life of his child is threatened, he fasts in sackcloth despite the desires of the elders. If only men today would stand for the life of the children they father in lust; perhaps some would live.