1 Kings 3: 10 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 11 And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 12 behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. 13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. 14 And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Live a life that is full of wisdom in God. Likewise, the rich man heard what Jesus told him, he went away sad because he has great pocessions.
A total surrender to God is about putting all your material needs to God. Abraham was told to sacrifice Issac, but God provided the ram. God don't need Issac, He wants your surrender.
Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to enter a needle hole, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. It is not the material richness that fail you, it is the surrender of these material that render us a failure to give totally to God.
Elisha prayed in 2Kings 6: 17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
We need to have this change, to open our spiritual eyes, to see that the God we served provides, the God we serve is everything we need. I asked and pray for this encounter, that I may see. What a sinners I am! I pray for forgiveness, I need a radical change, a repentant of the heart. Where is my surrender and where is my dependence on God, where is my trust in His provisions?
Open up my eyes that I may see and that my heart may change.
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