Two Different Kings 10/17/2023
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisPsalm 144:1 KJV
1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Proverbs 1:1-33 KJV
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Two men very different in writting styles. There gift from God far different, yet both annointed by God to be king. David many Psalms even probably few with the author not mentioned. There were a few other Psalmists in Psalm. Author often mention. This Psalm I chose mentions David praising God for hands to war and fingers to fight. David was a warrior and harpist. David knew how to use a slingshot, arrows, spears, battle ax and sword. His harp he played songs to sooth King Saul and speak his heart cry to his God. His training in the open field, but not without the knowledge of the laes of God which he meditated day and night. No doubt he instructed his children on how to worship his God. His desire to build the temple would be the call of his son. His hands had shed blood.
Solomon just man his request of God when God told him he could have anything he wanted it was wisdom to rule God's people. Though Solomon would be called the wisest king, his personal life was a problem for him. He judge with the wisdom of God and also built the temple. He wrote three books or at least three books are credit to him: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song Of Solomon. Song of Solomon being about God's people/congregation being the bride, yet it is the most sensual and controversal in nature because of the way it is writen and perceived. Ecclesiastes a book about King Lemur and is said to be Solomon searching for answers and reasoning in his enter thoughts about life.
The first Proverb King Solomon writes down is not only about wisdom which us given a gender of she and godly instruction which to follow. The desire of the ways of God to be followed. Solomon need for purity was solved through sacrifice for building of the Temple. Yet his sin of foreign wives that worshipped other gods and even Solomon participated in these ungodly sacrifices, he was stilled called by God for a purpose as a king.
We can not deny the humanity of our leaders exist. We can not deny our own humanity exist and we do always heed Gods warnings or obey God. As we learn God's desire for man as well as his ways our desire as believers in Christ is to submit to the ways of God, leaving our sinful desires behind.
Well who is the real son of David and God but God's only begotten Son Jesus because only one to lived completely in the will of God and designed and called for the perfecting of the saints of God. We not to die by our own sin but by the sin of the world, being marytrers not by our hand but for our faith. And not by hands of the world but to the sin of the world by removing it from our life by turning away from sin, or better yet allowing God to remove our sin from our life through the sanctification of his word and Spirit. In 2 Kings and 1st Chronicles, we have a glimpse into God's conservsation with Solomon about sin and his response. God never seems to address is power of his reign as king only his personal life.
In proverbs it almost as if Solomon has knowledge and wisdom of the laws of God but he wrestles with his decisions of obeying the laws of God. The last verse speaks to hearkening or listening to God and his instructions will dwell in safety and be quiet of the fear of evil, reason is our fear of God needs to be greater then sin ir temptation of the evil. We yield or heed the ways of God in fear to the power of God. Solomon task was also to teach the people godly wisdom. He was famous for doing so.
Two kings one call to war and defeat and other called to spread godly wisdom and build the house of God. David called to stablize the nation around Israel. All these things effect their personal writing style. David own sin and fear of God was in his writings as well.
Dear Heavenly Father we study men of old to know the struggle of sin and the power and fear of God. That the work you call us to might be different but your word and your wisdom changes not. Help us to follow your instructions. In Jesus precious name, Amen. Continual Scripture Study: Philippians 2:8-18 KJV
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. http://www.turtle30cshell.com
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