(1Ki 1:1) “Now king David was old and stricken in years;…” then, (1Ki 1:5) “Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. (6) And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so?…” David’s failure to speak hard things to this son eventually led to that son’s death! Spiritually, there are times we must speak hard things to those we love, lest they end up in hell; or someone else does because of them. May the Lord give us the strength to speak when it is the hardest to do so.