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The picture I see in this passage is how God continues to work and be faithful to his promises while letting the consequences of our human choices play out in our future or present circumstances. I see in the scripture how we're at a point in time where God's favor is conditional upon the people's obedience, especially the king. There's that truth, that there's things that we're going to experience that aren't our fault. But what I see in this is the situations when God allows us to be challenged or come against opposition to get our attention so that we might go to God. God's correction and discipline, He describes it himself here like a father would do for his son. And we see that playing out in Solomon's life just as God had promised. That image of the descendant of David shining like a lamp pointing to Jesus and also pointing to the role that the Israelites served during that time as a light to the rest of the world representing God. God gives peace. And as Jesus said, the peace he gives is not the peace, the world gives, he gives us peace of heart, of mind, of soul. When I feel the headaches of life coming at me, when things just aren't going the way I think they should, I can take comfort in the truth that God provides the peace and I can repent of the way I'm seeing it. I can change my perspective and look to God, I can enter his peace again. And so can you!