We are born and everything is right there and we hardly even think about where everything comes from. Often times our hearts only know how to be thankful when His hand withholds certain blessings that used to pour over us like rain. It’s then that our focus shifts and we see more clearer just how helpless we really are without Him who holds tomorrow in His hand. We then see more clearer the hand that perfectly knitted us together, when we were helplessly lying in the warmth of our mother’s womb. We are now just as helpless without him, as we were when we were lying in our mother’s womb for 9 months, waiting for him to knit us into his image. Helpless and depended on him were we then and this is still the state we should be in no matter how able it may seem we are.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
The apostle Paul knew the mysteries of the kingdom of God as well as any man ever did, yet he confesses himself at a loss and despairing to find the bottom, he humbly sits down at the brink, and he adores the depth. There is not only depth in the Divine counsels, but riches, abundance of that which is precious and valuable. The Divine counsels are complete, they have not only depth and height, but breadth and length, and that passing knowledge.
Ephesians 3:18-19 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height. (19) to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
1 kings 3:5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”
It’s not everyday that God says, ask! What shall I give you? Solomon could have focused on himself and asked for endless prosperity and worldly advancement but yet he didn’t. As Solomon communicated with God you can clearly see that he was not thinking about self for he kept repeating, you, you, you, in every sentence.
1 kings 3:7-9 Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
8 And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
9 Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”
He had his eyes set on things much higher and of greater value. Not only did he not ask for worldly treasures but he humbly acknowledged that he was just a little child, knowing not how to go out or go in. The condition of his heart pleased the Lord and he gave Solomon much more then he asked for.
In this position, is where God wants us, to realize that we are like a little child that does not know how to go out or go in. Solomon was in the perfect place where God could use him. To acknowledge that he was like a child in need of guidance. He desired that God gives him an understanding heart to judge His people, that he may discern between good and evil.
Matthew 6:33“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
He walked in the commandments of God, seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and this is why God added much more to what Solomon had asked for. We often have it backwards, we often first seek after things that could be added unto us instead of first seeking his kingdom and desiring his righteousness so we have power to walk as he walked.
When we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and God will add all these things unto us we need to be careful though. Those things that he adds unto us, can either be a blessing or a curse. Solomon had the right mindset in the beginning but when God started adding all these things unto him Solomon’s heart slowly turned away from the way he had once walked. He started focusing on his kingdom rather then on God’s kingdom. His mind strayed away from saying you, you.
God intended that Solomon would use his God-given wealth to love his neighbor as himself, but Solomon used it to love only himself. He multiplied gold, silver, horses and wives for himself, in direct disobedience to God’s commandment. He ultimately married seven hundred wives and possessed three hundred concubines, effectively robbing one thousand men of wives. Rather than giving to the poor, Solomon indulged himself.
Revelation 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
There is a serpent that desires to deceive us and as we see, he is making a good job of it, for he deceives the whole world! In these times that we are living in we need to fall down before God and beg him for wisdom that is not earthly. We need to beg him that can make Kingdoms tremble, to place his wisdom deep within our heart so we may discern between right and wrong.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;
This wisdom that God gives us, is foolishness to carnal men. So the dilemma is this, you’re a fool no matter what. The question is, Are you a fool to the world? Or are you a fool to the Lord?
Solomon came to the point where he was no longer seeking after God’s kingdom and his righteousness. Came to the point where the love for earthly things ripped him away from God, he allowed his many wives to direct his paths and he followed after other gods. Because he was so consumed with the things of this world he at last lost sight of what had pleased the Lord at the start. He turned away from God’s commandments, causing him to loose sight of God’s righteousness, of God’s kingdom and therefore God started taking away things that he had added unto him.
God is now still looking for loyal hearts that will have one mission and that’s to seek after his righteousness and his kingdom. How do we seek his righteousness? Solomon’s father, David tells us that ALL your commandments are righteousness, he begs God that his hand should be his help.
Psalm 119:172-174 My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
173 Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.
174 I long for Your salvation, O LORD, And Your law is my delight.
Solomon no longer had the ability to discern between good and evil when he no longer walked in the commandments of God and this should give us an example of how we also will not have power to discern between good and evil if we forsake God’s commandments. We more less become blind bats that have not the power to discern between good and evil.
Solomons words might sound weak to many, when he said I am like a little child that does not know how to go out or come in but these words greatly pleased God and because he had the right mindset God gave him power and wisdom that was almost unending.
I know how helpless I am without his Spirit within me but I also know how much strength is mine when I with faith, take hold of his Devine strength. To take hold of such strength is quite overwhelming for He is never more alive and real. To take hold of his Devine strength and have supernatural power to walk in his ways is what will cause the world to pause and see Christ in us. The world desperately needs to see him in us.
I have come to realize that I desperately need his wisdom to be placed within my heart for their is a cunning serpent that is becoming more and more desperate for he knows his time is very short. I know that his wisdom and strength is what will bring me into his kingdom. The days in which we live in are evil and it is not power over earthly things or many riches that will equip us for this battle within our land. If ever we have needed the wisdom from above it Is now.
James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
In Matthew 25, we are told of 10 virgins, 5 were foolish and 5 were wise. 5 were wise for they had asked God for wisdom and it was given unto them. But 5 did not have the wisdom of God within their hearts and failed to please God. They had the lamp, which represents his word, but they did not have the oil, which represents the Holy Spirit. We can only have wisdom from above if we have the Holy Spirit, that then empowers us to represent him. We need to ask for his Holy Spirit and it’s power shall be ours. It will be forever too late to seek the Holy Spirit, to seek his kingdom and his righteousness when the midnight cry is heard and we are asked to go out and meet our bridegroom, our Redeemer!
Mathew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.