We had a great time at Memorial Park today! Got to have a picnic, play on the playground (yes I played too!😁), and climb up and across these boulders. We had fun climbing but then got hot and tired and took the easy way back to the playground. Sometimes the hard way is just that: the hard way.
1 Kings 2:15-17 says, “And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD. 16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on. 17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.”
Adonijah recognized (or at least pretended to acknowledge) that it was God’s will, God’s choice and plan, for Solomon to be the next king of Israel not him (despite his earlier attempt to take the kingdom for himself).
But then the very next thing he said was a plan to go against that. Some of the cultural significance is easy for us to miss, but asking for Abishag as a wife was an attempt to usurp Solomon’s throne.
Do you recognize God’s plan in your life? Do you submit to it or fight against it?
Believing in God is great. Living under His plan and authority is far better.
It really is a rocky road and an uphill climb to go against God. It didn’t work out well for Adonijah, and it won’t work out well for you or me either.