We were working on a project together, and I was thinking it was time we were finished. \u201cWell, that\u2019s near enough\u201d, I said as I put my gear down. My brother looked at it, and said, \u201cNear enough is not good enough, Gwenyth, you\u2019ll have to spend a bit more time on it!\u201d Those words have stuck with me for over forty years, and whenever I am tempted to think \u201cNear enough\u201d, they come back to haunt me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 King Solomon was one who chose what was good, but it was not the best. When he first became king, we are told that one night he had a vivid dream. In it, he heard God tell him to choose whatever he would like and it would be given to him. At this stage, Solomon was still new to being a king, and the thought of having to solve disputes between people at times was overwhelming. So he asked for wisdom to be able to govern the people he was over, as he should. God replied that seeing he had asked this thing that was not so much for himself, but for the benefit of others, that he would be granted this in abundance. Not only that, but he would\u00a0 also be\u00a0 given wealth and health. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We see as we read through \u00a0the book of Second Chronicles in the Bible, chapters 1-10, how God did indeed bless Solomon with great wisdom\u00a0 and wealth. But there were times when Solomon thought he knew better than God and acted on his own feelings and desires. He felt that if he had princesses of the neighbouring countries as his wives, that \u00a0their fathers would not come to war against him. \u00a0But these young women came from pagan backgrounds, and as he listened to them, they gradually wore him down from his belief in the one true God Who had given him all that he had. He felt he had done near enough to what God wanted. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As a result of trying to please his many wives, he even got far enough away from God to make the idols that they wanted. Not only that, but he even placed them in God\u2019s temple that he had built! \u00a0Solomon was near enough, but not good enough; he had chosen what was good, but not what was best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We have to be so careful that we don\u2019t wander away from God\u2019s instructions to mankind, or we too will miss out on not only what benefits us, but God\u2019s best for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We were working on a project together, and I was thinking it was time we were finished. \u201cWell, that\u2019s near enough\u201d, I said as I put my gear down. My brother looked at it, and said, \u201cNear enough is not good enough, Gwenyth, you\u2019ll have to spend a bit more time on it!\u201d Those … Continue reading Near Enough!!<\/span>