INSISTING
Today's reading: 1 Kings 10-13

"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 11:2 NLT

I don't think I've ever really connected with King Solomon.

-a man
-a very, very wise man
-a rich man
-a very, very rich man
-a man of power

You can see why I've never really associated with him. We have few, if any, things in common.

That was until I re-read this verse.

'Yet Solomon insisted...'

I believe that means he allowed the gals to invade his mind, take captive his thoughts and override any and all common sense (or God-given wisdom) he had been allotted.

I believe they were all he could think about.

I suppose day and night his thoughts focused on what he could not/should not have.

I guess he was eaten alive with what should have been out of his reach and off his radar.

I get that.

Been there.

I have had times in my own life when I have 'known better than the Lord'. Times when I thought I could handle it, even after He tells me I cannot. Times when the idea looked and sounded too good to be true, and yet I pursued with a bloodlust.

If you continue to read, the women led Solomon astray. This wise man.

This wise man who had been warned, yet took matters into his own hands.

A lesson for this poor, uneducated farm girl!