With great power...
June 16, 2008
With great power comes great responsibility. At least that is what my childhood comic hero Spider man said in many issues. Biblically it is correct.
Solomon was given great power to rule his kingdom. But with it was a responsibility to make sure that the people followed God. If they did not, Solomon would be at fault for what happens as he was their king.
1 Kings 9:3-9 KJV
(3) And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
(4) And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
(5) Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
(6) But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
(7) Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
(8) And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
(9) And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
We all know what happened. Solomon fell away and it started a long line of kings who would not follow God either.
What about us? Father's day has just passed and Mother's day was a month ago. What have we taught our children? Have we taught them what they need to know? Have we led them in a way to follow God? Are we following Him ourselves? With great power comes great responsibility.
Today
1 Kings 9:1-28, 2 Chronicles 8:1-18
Tomorrow
Proverbs 25:1-26:28
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