Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom

 2 Samuel 14:1-20

Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom. So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don’t use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead. Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

 “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”

The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant. Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.”

Why?

Joab knew the king's heart longed for Absalom, but it was a shame to ask him to come back. Joab made a drama before King David and let David agree for Abaslom to return home.

Joab was a shrewd man. Doing the right or bad things both have a smart idea.

Our life is like water spilled on the ground, which can not be recovered, if our life passes away, which cannot be recovered.

How?

May I be guided by the Holy Spirit, have the smart mind to learn good wisdom, and do the right things.