God is patient and full of grace. Yet He will invariably and thoroughly deal with our sin. Solomon was only the third king to rule over the nation of Israel. He was the first descendent of the exalted King David. Yet no manner of pedigree or previous generations of faithfulness could prevent God from bringing judgment upon the wayward monarch.<\/p>\n
God dealt so thoroughly with Solomon that by the time He was finished meting out His punishment, only one tribe remained for the wayward ruler’s descendent. The divided kingdom would become vulnerable to invaders and aggressive neighbors. Both halves would eventually come to ruin. Solomon’s legacy of sin would be devastating.<\/p>\n
Yet just as one man’s sin would bring centuries of grief, so one man’s faithfulness would bring blessing for years afterward. Because of David’s faithfulness to God, even his son Solomon’s sin could not completely eradicate God’s blessing. God would leave a portion of the nation in the hands of David’s descendants because of David’s faithfulness.<\/p>\n
What we do in our life has lasting consequences, for good or for bad. Your walk with God will impact people for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.” 1 Kings 11:11-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15458,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/15458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}