Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Chronicles 8-10.

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When the queen of Sheba spoke to King Solomon she told him something which I believe was prophetic and which God intends for all of us to hear and apply to ourselves.  She told Solomon that God had  set him on the throne of Israel so that he could execute justice and righteousness for them.  God did this because He loved Israel.  In the same way, God has given us gifts so that we can bring blessings to the people around us.  God gave King Solomon wealth and honor so that he might bring blessings to the people of Israel by executing justice over them and showing them righteousness.  Unfortunately, Solomon chose to wealth and honor which God had given him to seek pleasure for himself rather than focusing on bringing them closer to God.  So, let us remember that God has blessed us so that we may bless others, just as He blessed Solomon so that Solomon could bless the people of Israel.

When Solomon died and Rehoboam took the throne, Rehoboam made two mistakes.  His first mistake was that he rejected the advice of the old men who had been his father’s advisers.  He rejected the advice of men who were older and wiser than himself.  His second mistake was to forget that his job as king was to serve God’s people.  He thought that they were there to serve him.  It struck me as I read this that Rehoboam actually made one more mistake.  Instead of taking counsel with his father’s advisers separately from his young friends, Rehoboam should have brought them together to get them to all agree on what course of action he should take.  We often make the same mistake of choosing either the wisdom of the aged or the energy of the young.  In this case, Rehoboam’s advisers would probably have still given him conflicting advice, but perhaps if his older advisers had been present when the young men gave their advice they could have explained why it was bad advice.  Rehoboam followed the advice of the young men because they told him what he wanted to hear.

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