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This week\u2019s passage in 1 Kings 10:1-29. Beginning with a summary of Chapter 9 to set the context before the scripture. This chapter, looking across Solomon's time as King, is showing when everything was really good. It paints this really extravagant, crazy picture. It leaves a little bit of an unsettled feeling in my heart because it just feels like too much. The main focus and point of this chapter is seeing the heart of God to bless his people, the answer to Solomon's prayer and the promise that He had for Solomon. The picture that was standing out to me (Curtis) in this scripture is: God is faithful to His word and He calls us to be faithful to Him. God is true to his word and despite our human failings, God is still faithful to His word and his promises. Solomon is in this position where there's this opportunity to forget that it was God who blessed Him with all of these things. The wisest thing to do is to know God's word and to put it in our hearts, just like we were reading in Deuteronomy, just keeping a copy of God's word close to us and keeping our hearts turned towards God from the low times to the high times. That's still so important. The importance of humility, the importance of dependence on God and surrendering our quote unquote right to excess. Though the failings are happening, God is still faithful to his promises and patient, so patient with us to get back into line, to come back into the fold, to follow the Lord his ways and his instructions. Our call is to humility and surrender. God wants a good, long life for people because He is so faithful and good.