Smart Like Solomon

1 Kings 3 reveals some things about King Solomon…

“Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he was sacrificing and burning incense on the high places”

Worshipping in the “High places” was prohibited by God in Deuteronomy 12…

“You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you are going to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains… And you shall tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones to pieces… You shall not act this way toward the Lord your God. But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and you shall come there”

1 Kings 3 continues with the story of how God blessed Solomon in a dream and gave him unsurpassed wisdom. And then we come to 3:15…

“Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants”

Did you see that? Solomon was worshipping in the “High Places” but after the dream he was already smarter and wiser and worshipped God where he should have in the first place… before the “Ark of the Covenant”

God no longer speaks to us in dreams but through his Son Jesus Christ and in his revealed Word.

Maybe we better re-examine where and how we worship and if we find out (like Solomon did) that our worship is improper, make the proper correction.

We don’t have to be as smart as Solomon to do that… we can borrow his wisdom and mimic it. After all wasn’t that what God intended when he preserved these words for us?