Blessed Burden
“The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.” I Kings 3:10-12 NKJV While there has been no time where self-centredness produced good things, there are several accounts of blissful breakthroughs through the blessed burden. For king Solomon, he had a blessed burden of how to provide righteous judgment to God’s great people. And not how to be the richest man on earth; or how to be the undisputed number one on the Forbes magazine or the Guinness book of record. Fortunately for him, he got these secondary life’s achievements as...