At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.” (1 Kings 3:5) God gave Solomon a blank check, and what did Solomon ask for? Wisdom. Read 1 Kings 3:1-12, a great story of not asking for what I want, but for what I need, and in turn receive blessing upon blessing.

God’s wisdom is available to all who seek God. Ultimately, we find in Solomon’s story God’s desire to anoint God’s beloved with God’s wisdom. How? God gives us the answer in the “Shema” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” 

Thus, by understanding God alone is our God, and embracing and loving God with our “all,” God’s presence in our lives becomes profoundly real, and the wisdom of God is ours. Richard Rohr, in his book A Spring Within Us, writes:

“St. Bonaventure called God ‘A Fountain Fullness.’ Once we begin with outpouring love as the foundational pattern of reality and love as the very shape of God, then everything somehow has to fall into the same family resemblance. If this is the Creator, then somehow this must be the DNA of all of the creatures.” (p.362-363)

Love is “the very shape of God”! Like Solomon we are blessed with wisdom, and much more, when we, with intentionality, love God with our all. This is God’s gift to all who seek it. I look forward to seeing you in church. 

Through Christ,

Pastor Doug