Solomon - Anointed

Read 1 Kings 1
 
1 Kings 1:17 Bathsheba said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the Lord your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.’”
 
WE continue our look at particular people in the Bible with a first look at Solomon. “Wisdom” is often a word that comes to mind when we hear his name. As with other lives from God’s story, Solomon sometimes glorified God with wise decisions. Sometimes he seemed to forget this gift.
    We begin to understand this complex man to know God formed and anointed him to succeed David as Israel’s king. Although reading 1 Kings 1 may cause us to think Solomon became king because his mother and others wanted him to be, we learn God’s will for Solomon from David’s words to his son: 1 Chronicles 22:8-10 “But this word of the Lord came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. 9 But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. 10 He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’”  Note the intimate father-son relationship that God will have with Solomon. Also, the “forever throne”, of course, refers to Jesus to descend from David’s and Solomon’s lineage.
    Bathsheba, Nathan and Zadok were acting in God’s will to establish Solomon above his half-brother Adonijah. A good lesson is that as we often pray, “Your will be done, Lord.” we must respond as the Lord wills us. Saved in Christ, we must act daily to accomplish God’s plans for our lives. As Solomon, each of has been anointed to the throne room of God in order to fulfill his will to be done on earth.
    Solomon is on the throne because God put him there. You are saved into Jesus’ glory because the Holy Spirit put you there.
 
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.