[00:00:00] Welcome to the Recovery Bible, Solomon. A Wish for Wisdom. Read 1 Kings 3. Step 3. Prayer. God, help me this day to remember where my power and my strength come from. Help me to remember how far your grace has brought me. The story of Solomon tells of the rise and fall of one of the greatest,
[00:00:26] richest men and most powerful kings the world has ever known. He became all of these things for one primary reason. He didn't ask for them. Early in Solomon's reign, the Lord said to him, Ask for whatever you want me to give you. Solomon's Temple 3:5. Give your servant a discerning heart to
[00:00:51] govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. Verse 9. Solomon chose to start off his reign on the right foot. His full request to God, see 3.7-9, sounds almost as if he took steps one, two and three all at once. He admitted that he could not run the kingdom on his own,
[00:01:14] that the kingdom was really God's anyway, and that he needed to rely on God's wisdom to succeed. The Lord was so pleased with this request that he told Solomon he would bless him, not only with great wisdom, but with prosperity and peace as well. All Solomon needed to do was to obey God as his father, David, had. Before we were in recovery, we had our priorities turned all around.
[00:01:43] We thought that if we made enough money, got the right job, found the right mate, or fixed all the people who had messed us up, that everything would end up all right. But deep down we knew otherwise. Our own success in life and in recovery must begin and end with God. When we put him first, we will be given the wisdom and the resources to live fully. Though Solomon struggled with the ending,
[00:02:12] he got off to a solid beginning. And so can we, each day. Bill Chickering And then we'll be back over the end up tomorrow. We will tell us about how we'll be able to see him here. This morning we will be given this time when we're going on. It's a brilliant one. Thank you.