1 Kings 3:16-28

1 Kings 3:16-28

Back to Solomon. The more I thought about what I read yesterday, the more I began to think about my own prayers. Solomon didn't pray that God would make him a good leader. He prayed more specifically: give me discernment to be a good leader. So God gave him that wisdom. He also gave him opportunities.

This is where it picks up from the section that I read today. Solomon had the opportunity to display the wisdom that God gave him and he did when two women came to him fighting over a child. Each one claimed that the child was hers. God not only changes us when we ask Him to change our character so that it is more like Him but He also gives us opportunities to use those blessings to glorify and honor Him. In the context of this story, Solomon used his wisdom to bless the actual mother of the child by proving which one was the mother and also glorified God through the situation by ruling with integrity and wisdom.

So I might not be king and I may never have to do a paternity case. However, God has blessed me in so many ways. Much like Solomon, it is now my turn to be a good steward of those blessings and to use them to bless others and glorify the one who gave them to me. In essence, I'm blessed to bless others and to glorify our God.