“Being afraid is fun,” my daughter confessed to the counselor. “I get to sleep on Mommy’s floor.”

We had taken our seven-year-old to the counselor because her fears had made bedtime a battleground. . . .

King David longed to build a temple for God in Jerusalem. God said that since it was in David’s heart to build Him a house, God would build David a “house.” God was not promising a physical house with walls and a roof. The “house” God promised David was a family lineage that would endure forever (v. 12). . . .