1 Kings 8:25-26 KJV
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
I got to thinking about this passage today in view of what I know to be the history of the kings of Israel. God did indeed verify His word, but perhaps not exactly in the ways Solomon envisioned.
Even Solomon slipped from a life of close communion with God
His Son saw the nation split in two, and
God eventually pronounced that no seed of Solomon would ever again sit on the throne in Jerusalem (though He kept intact His promise that one of the seed of David would sit on that throne forever)
Solomon may have questioned whether God was really answering his prayer. In is certainly possible that those kings who followed him (at least among the ones that read the Scriptures and knew of Solomon's prayer) wondered if God would ever verify His Word.
And in similar fashion, we are given to wonder if God is keeping His word to us. Our trouble is, we pray with certain expectations of answers. God always answers, especially when it comes to a prayer to verify and keep His own Word. But those answers often come in forms we were not expecting.
Ours is to trust and obey the Lord. We will one day see that His Word was kept perfectly and to the glory of God.
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
I got to thinking about this passage today in view of what I know to be the history of the kings of Israel. God did indeed verify His word, but perhaps not exactly in the ways Solomon envisioned.
Even Solomon slipped from a life of close communion with God
His Son saw the nation split in two, and
God eventually pronounced that no seed of Solomon would ever again sit on the throne in Jerusalem (though He kept intact His promise that one of the seed of David would sit on that throne forever)
Solomon may have questioned whether God was really answering his prayer. In is certainly possible that those kings who followed him (at least among the ones that read the Scriptures and knew of Solomon's prayer) wondered if God would ever verify His Word.
And in similar fashion, we are given to wonder if God is keeping His word to us. Our trouble is, we pray with certain expectations of answers. God always answers, especially when it comes to a prayer to verify and keep His own Word. But those answers often come in forms we were not expecting.
Ours is to trust and obey the Lord. We will one day see that His Word was kept perfectly and to the glory of God.
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