As I read today's passages, I reflected on how glad I was that we just read Ecclesiastes. Reading 1 Kings 10 and 2 Chronicles 9 can leave you with the thought that Solomon really had it together. He knew how to "create" wealth; he was a master at organization. People showed up with lavish gifts, just to hang out around him. I wonder if he had a Donald Trump hairstyle! THEN I thought of his words in Ecclesiastes. He was rich, famous and miserable. None of that gold made him happy. His palace was a testament to his misery. NO WORLDLY WEALTH CAN BRING THE JOY OF KNOWING GOD AND DOING HIS WILL!
1 Kings 10 rounds out the picture of the rich king who kept looking for happiness and couldn't find it. He ended up being drawn into every perverted form of worship available to him. It would be as if we worshiped Jesus on Sunday, Gaia (the goddess representing mother earth) on Monday, wicca on Tuesday, our ancestors on Wednesday, and so on. All this from the son of a man after God's own heart.
My heart is broken just thinking about it.
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