EXCEPT

Today's reading: 1 Kings 1-4

"Solomon loved the Lord and followed all the instructions of his father, David, except..." 1 Kings 3:1 NLT

One cannot help but pause on this particular verse.

We know about Solomon...

His wealth. His wisdom. His grand building projects. His accumulated treasures. His wives and concubines.

But this single verse, one out of all the words written about Solomon, are possibly the saddest penned by God's hand.

And the verse that makes us more in common with this historical king than anything in his biography.

We all have that 'except' in our hearts and lives.

Something that keeps us from being wholeheartedly, sold out to the Lord.

That one thing that we just can't/won't/haven't/don't want to turn over to Him for safe keeping.

I'm presenting my 'except' to the Lord, asking Him to take it, have it, hold it. Maybe, just maybe, you have one, too.