Reading: I Kings 1 - 4
My Verse: "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, Ask what I shall give you" (3:5).
This is something we all, especially as children dream of! We ask each other what would you ask for if you were given three wishes? Well, here, Solomon is given that very thing! You, LORD God ask him what he would like You to give him! Wow! And the wonderful thing here is that Solomon asked for the best thing, instead of wealth or power, he asked for wisdom. "So give your servant an understanding mind and a hearing heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and bad" (3:9).
And You, LORD God gave him not only that but the wealth and power as well!(I Kings 3:11-13) How I could learn from this. Too often I seek after the wrong things, beg You for things that are not Your best for me. In the Amplified Bible the study note states this. "Each one's life tells what he has asked for -"in heaven above or in the earth beneath." Which shall it be, God's will and glory, or our own?"
Growing up in a tiny village I always felt that I was so naive. When I was with friends they would be telling jokes, there would be snickers and this odd laughing that indicated there was more to the joke or story than what I was getting. If I asked most often I was told I didn't need or want to know. And I am like but I did want to know - I felt so ignorant!
So, like Solomon, I did not know "how to go out or come in." Like Solomon I wanted "an understanding mind and a hearing heart." I too wanted to "discern between good and bad." I prayed to You, LORD God for discernment.
I admit my motives may not have always been correct but I didn't want this discernment just to "get" the bad jokes. No, I did not want to be lead off on some rabbit trail of some wild philosophical belief. I wanted to be able to recognize when something wasn't "right." I wanted You LORD God to keep me from going to the "left or to the right." And I thank You for keeping me on this path of Yours.
"Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and hidden things that you have not known"
My Verse: "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, Ask what I shall give you" (3:5).
This is something we all, especially as children dream of! We ask each other what would you ask for if you were given three wishes? Well, here, Solomon is given that very thing! You, LORD God ask him what he would like You to give him! Wow! And the wonderful thing here is that Solomon asked for the best thing, instead of wealth or power, he asked for wisdom. "So give your servant an understanding mind and a hearing heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and bad" (3:9).
And You, LORD God gave him not only that but the wealth and power as well!(I Kings 3:11-13) How I could learn from this. Too often I seek after the wrong things, beg You for things that are not Your best for me. In the Amplified Bible the study note states this. "Each one's life tells what he has asked for -"in heaven above or in the earth beneath." Which shall it be, God's will and glory, or our own?"
Growing up in a tiny village I always felt that I was so naive. When I was with friends they would be telling jokes, there would be snickers and this odd laughing that indicated there was more to the joke or story than what I was getting. If I asked most often I was told I didn't need or want to know. And I am like but I did want to know - I felt so ignorant!
So, like Solomon, I did not know "how to go out or come in." Like Solomon I wanted "an understanding mind and a hearing heart." I too wanted to "discern between good and bad." I prayed to You, LORD God for discernment.
I admit my motives may not have always been correct but I didn't want this discernment just to "get" the bad jokes. No, I did not want to be lead off on some rabbit trail of some wild philosophical belief. I wanted to be able to recognize when something wasn't "right." I wanted You LORD God to keep me from going to the "left or to the right." And I thank You for keeping me on this path of Yours.
"Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and hidden things that you have not known"
"And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the
way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the
left" Isaiah 30:21
"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come" John 16:13
So in truth we do, in a sense, have the proverbial three wishes! You, LORD God promise us that You will hear us when we cry out to You. You tell us like you did Solomon to ask you for what we want. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7,8).
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come" John 16:13
So in truth we do, in a sense, have the proverbial three wishes! You, LORD God promise us that You will hear us when we cry out to You. You tell us like you did Solomon to ask you for what we want. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7,8).
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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