The faith expressed in the title is beautiful
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Success is undoubtedly the hot topic of our time. Everyone dreams of success and wishes for success. For this reason, even if you go to a bookstore and search through books, you can easily find books on how to succeed. If success comes from reading a few books in a bookstore, who wouldn't be?
When we talk about and organize concepts about something, we need to think about whether it is more essential, more inner, and more enduring. When we think about it a little bit, we need to think about something a little more essential, spiritual, and eternal than what people say about success.
Even those who believe in Jesus need money and success is important. There is no denying that success and money can still be influential. But more important than worldly success is your relationship with God. Because worldly success cannot give us eternal life, but God gives us eternal life.
That is why we say that the Lord is our life.
Therefore, believers need to remember God even when they succeed and learn to thank God for giving them success, and even if they fail, they need an attitude of humbly obeying God's will because God's will is contained in their failure.
In the text, Solomon, a man who remembered God when he succeeded, appears. However, when he succeeded, when he became the king of Israel, he humbly looked to God and realized that all of this was God's grace. Solomon well interpreted the success that came to him. He clearly realized that the success was not his own ability or his own effort, but the grace of God.
The important thing is to realize that God gives grace and respond to that grace. If we do not respond to the grace that is given, grace will inevitably be destroyed. Whether we respond with gratitude, with praise, with devotion to the Lord, with offerings for the cause of the Lord, or with love of serving our brothers and sisters... There has to be some kind of response to God.
The same is true before God. Do you know who God is pleased with? A person who responds to God When God gives grace, when God meets us, if we respond with joy, thanks, and praise, God the Father is pleased.
Solomon responded to God's grace, and what kind of reaction he showed, he offered "a thousand burnt offerings." It's not to show off, but it means that their gratitude towards God was that great, and they are responding to that grace in a way that pleases God. In response to Solomon's response, God says, "What shall I give you?" You respond as God pleases, and God wants to give you something precious, so you ask, ‘What would you like me to give you?’
At this time, Solomon answered very well. We do not seek wealth and honor, but seek wisdom so that we can lead God's people well. God not only gave us wisdom, but he also gave us the rest we didn't ask for as a bonus.
Everyone, I bless you with a life that receives a bonus before God.