In charging his son Solomon, David specifically pointed out
the need for his son to receive wisdom from the Lord (1st Chronicles
22:11-13). Clearly Solomon was
listening intently to his father's words. We see that in this chapter when God
offered Solomon a blank check, Solomon followed the line of thinking that his
father had plugged him into. He wrote "WISDOM" in the amount
blank. That is, he asked for an
understanding heart.
Not only did God give Solomon what he asked for, He gave him
more (2 Chronicles 1:12). What an
incredible opportunity! It will be sadly interesting as we rehearse what Solomon
did with the great endowment God handed him.
Now, unfortunately Solomon didn't take very long in making
some wrong moves. Despite his wonderful wisdom, notice the chasm between what
he was doing before God came to him in a dream and one of the first things that
is said about him afterward (2nd Chronicles 1:6, 14 - 17 & 1st
Kings 10:28 and see Deuteronomy 17:15 & 16). To be a man of such political and
governmental wisdom, he turned out to be guilty of exercising considerable
foolishness in some of his personal, spiritual and moral decisions.
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