Lesson to
learn from King Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-9)
1 Kings 11:1
& 4 says,
‘’King
Solomon loved many foreign women…and it came to pass when Solomon was old, that
his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect
with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father’’
It is a
horrible thing when the Spirit of the world (1 Corinthians 2:12) lodges in the
heart of a man and takes control of it, and turns his affections toward vile,
shameful and disgraceful passions.
It was highly
incomprehensible that King Solomon who at a time was on his knees, spreading
out his hands towards God during the dedication of the temple in 1 Kings 8:22
would end up an idolater. A man of faith to whom God appeared twice, ending up
as an idolater worshipping the idols of his foreign wives? What a terrible fall
and how are the mighty fallen!
These days,
human opinion would have excused and explained Solomon’s misbehavior as
respecting the freedom and conscience of others or having a tolerance for their
convictions and ways of life. His idolatry would have been given a social
label.
That is
human opinion but the question is what does God think about what Solomon did? 1
Kings 11:6 says ‘’ Solomon DID EVIL (emphasis mine) in the sight of the Lord,
and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father’’
What are we
doing in our lives that seem right in the eyes of men but which God sees as
evil? Luke 16:15 says that what is highly esteemed in the eyes of men is an
abomination to God. That the majority are doing an evil does not make it right.
In the
scheme of God and His Word, the majority have never been right. They have
always been on the wrong and losing end and God is not a democrat who follows
majority opinion. Exodus 23:2 warns against following the multitudes to do
evil.
What are the
things we are holding on to which are acclaimed among men but is an evil before
God? We need to drop them and repent else we be judged. 1 John 2:15-16 says:
‘Love
neither the world nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not in him; because all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not
of the father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abides forever’’
Loving God
and loving the world are incompatible!
Ayodele John
Adegbulugbe
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