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How do you know that...  1 Kings 3    Dr David A Baillie

8/5/2019

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Years ago I took my volleyball team from Furman University to a tournament in Mississippi and as a treat I decided to take my team down to New Orleans for a day of sightseeing and fun.  I had a number of freshmen players on the team that year.  For lunch I took them to a restaurant on near Bourbon Street.   We were actually on a balcony looking over the street and the setting was just great. 

Everyone ordered.  One girl, a freshman from Chicago, ordered some shrimp scampi.  She had never had shrimp before in her life and was looking forward to it.  Our food came, and we were having a great time and all the girls seemed to be enjoying their meals, but I looked down the table and she had a really strange look on her face.  So I asked her, "How is your shrimp scampi?"  She looked at me and said,  "It is good, but it is really, really crunchy."  

The girl from Chicago didn't know that when you ate shrimp, you actually didn't eat the tails.  I don't know that we ever let her forget it, and somehow I hope that somewhere she finds this story and is reading it today.  The truth is, however, that there are more things we don't know than we do know, but the problem is that we usually don't know what we don't know until we find out we don't know it. 

This week we are looking at the Story of Solomon as he begins his reign as King of Israel.  The Lord appears to Solomon and says,  "As you begin your reign, what do you want?  Ask me and I will give you whatever you ask."

Solomon has one of the great lines of insight in the scripture when he says:

7 Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

What a great insight, one that I could use more of.  As I get older I become more stubborn and convinced I am right and that I know everything.  Solomon reminds me that I need to step back and remember that in the sight of God I am a little child, and I don't even know if the door says push or pull.  Fortunately there is a God who is greater than I and who can give wisdom for life if I just ask him. 

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