Today's Passage: 1 Kings 9-10
I am amazed at this passage! Solomon is so wise. This is not new information for you, I'm sure. But did you ever stop to think about the fact that he was so wise, even the Queen of Sheba journeyed from far away just to ask him questions and see if the rumors of his vast wisdom were actually true? Amazing! She asked hard questions and with ease Solomon was able to answer them. How? Chapter 10:24 says that god put the wisdom in his heart and people from all over the place sought an audience with him just to glean from his wisdom.
What is so crazy is that this wisdom is available to US...today...right now! We have the Proverbs, written mostly by Solomon, which tell us how to live our lives and how to gain wisdom. But more importantly, we have Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 1:30 that Jesus has become for us wisdom from God. Later on in 1 Corinthians 2, Paul is describing the Holy Spirit's role in us being able to understand, in some small part, the things of God, including wisdom. The most incredible part of this chapter is the last part of verse 16 where Pauls says we have the mind of Christ. Whoa. Just sit back and think about that...
Just like God put wisdom in Solomon's heart, those of us who have trusted in the Lord to be our Savior have the Holy Spirit revealing things of God to us and the mind of Christ. We can have wisdom. We DO have wisdom. Let us all pray today that we will be aware of the greatness of the God who grants wisdom generously to any who asks (James 1:5).
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