God told Solomon, "Ask for whatever y'all want," together with Solomon's unselfish asking for wisdom brought Solomon nifty favor, wealth together with wisdom from God. (1 Kings 3:5-15). Fast Forward: Solomon disobeys God's ascendence against marrying unusual wives together with God speaks to Solomon over again proverb these wives volition Pb to the demise of Solomon's faith together with his earthly kingdom (1 Kings 11). This fourth dimension Solomon's respond is non recorded, exactly nosotros know he didn't change.(1) Scripture says, Solomon held fast to his wives inwards dearest (1 Kings 11:2). He loved his unusual wives to a greater extent than than he loved God. He had to a greater extent than wisdom than anyone on Earth (1 Kings 10:23), however his dearest for women made him a fool. This is a powerful message to us. Would nosotros produce incorrect things to delight ourselves or person else - spouse, parents, children, boss, friends? If nosotros select to dearest anyone or anything to a greater extent than than nosotros dearest God together with His commands, nosotros may "enjoy" our lives, exactly nosotros volition certainly ruin them. ------------------------
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Sitting inward a java shop, I was pondering Psalm 66:18-20: "If I had cherished sin inward my heart, the Lord would non gain got listened." I didn't fully sympathise how God could destination listening. Just then, a woman raise together with fille sat downwardly at the booth side past times side to me. 
The lilliputian fille climbed happily into her mom's lap together with began eating a muffin. “Don’t gain got such large bites,” her woman raise warned, “You’ll brand yourself sick.” To my surprise, the fry glanced at her mom defiantly together with stuffed the residual of the muffin into her minor mouth. “Time out!” her mom said moving her from her lap to a chair. “You didn’t heed to me.” With a rima oris total of muffin, the fry began protesting. “I’m non listening,” her woman raise responded. Aha! That's what Psalm 66 means. When nosotros defy God, He puts us inward “time out” to become our attention. He nonetheless loves us, exactly He stops "listening" until nosotros are gain to surrender our rebellion together with climb dorsum into His lap.
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In the floor of Joseph, Reuben illustrates an of import truth. He was Joseph's most honorable half-brother: - Reuben saved Joseph’s life. He suggested they throw Joseph inwards a pit because he planned to rescue him later. (Genesis 37:17-22; Genesis 42:22).
- Reuben didn't participate inwards the determination to sell Joseph into slavery (Genesis 37:29-30).
God would operate Joseph's mistreatment for skilful (Genesis 50:20), but Joseph's half-brothers were fully responsible for their sins against Joseph.(1) And Reuben was too responsible. He had skilful intentions, but he was to a greater extent than afraid of his brothers’ disapproval than God’s disapproval. He wanted to create the correct thing, but he buckled nether pressure. Later inwards his life, Reuben committed roughly other serious sin, sleeping amongst his father’s concubine (Genesis 35:22). Was this because he'd seared his conscience past times allowing Joseph's mistreatment or was it exactly roughly other instance of giving inwards to pressure, this fourth dimension the pressure level of lust?(2) Reuben serves every bit a skilful bad-example for us.(3) It's non plenty to accept skilful intentions. We must create what is right.(4) ---------------------- (1) God tin give the axe operate the actions of evil men for good, but He never causes somebody to sin (God Uses Bad People. (2) When nosotros repeatedly create things against our conscience, nosotros "sear" it, pregnant nosotros lose our might to differentiate betwixt skilful in addition to evil. We don't know if Reuben e'er really repented. I promise he did, but in that place seems to live on roughly questions well-nigh their repentance inwards Genesis. See I Doubt they Genuinely Repented. (3) Did you lot know that these Old Testament stories accept slap-up importance inwards our agreement of sin in addition to temptation? I encourage you lot to read this sum passage: Anatomy of an Insincere Repentance in addition to An Example to Avoid. (4) When nosotros create something nosotros know is wrong, nosotros commencement downwards a path of self-deception. See 3 Paths to Self-Deception. Bible Love Notes
