INSISTING ON OUR OWN WAY
Today's reading: 1 Kings 10-13
"Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharoah's daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and from among the Hittites. The Lord had clearly instructed his people not to intermarry with those nations, because the women they married would lead them to worship their gods. Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway." 1 Kings 11:1-3 NLT
It's not that Solomon didn't know better.
It isn't even that Solomon didn't know the 'why' behind the instructions.
And in Solomon's case, it didn't even have to do with a lack, or wanting for anything--or anyone in this matter.
It all boils down to Solomon insisting on his own way.
And it eventually cost Solomon his kingdom.
Disobedience always comes with a price.
Not only for Bible-time kings who were rich and had a penchant for women.
It happens in our own lives, too.
God will let you have whatever it is you want in life--but if what you want goes against His best for you, expect to pray the price.
Know something will extract the cost of that choice.
Be it spiritually.
Emotionally.
Mentally.
Physically.
Insisting on our own way will cost us at some point.
