Get an Education! 1Kings 3:12-13

This post concerns the often-repeated slogan to our children, “Get an Education.”

Get an Education discusses what can go wrong in gaining knowledge. Today, many believe that the road to happiness lies in graduating from college. Also, for some, an advanced degree adds to their knowledge and the prospects of a better job and so, they think, to a happier life.

However, the Bible reveals that some things can go wrong in the pursuit and use of knowledge and wisdom. Consider King Solomon. He began life as a king, worshiping correctly. God asked him what he wanted to receive from the Lord, 1 Kings 3:5. “the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”

Solomon answered wisely and humbly, 1 Kings3:9. “Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil,”

God was pleased and promised him great wisdom, 1 Kings 3:12. “… 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.”

God, true to His word, made Solomon famous, 1 Kings 4:30. “Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.”

Thus, God made Solomon not only wise but also famous.

However, in old age, Solomon left the worship of God and turned to idols, 1 Kings 11:4-6. “For when Solomon… old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart …not wholly true to the LORD his God, For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So, Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD,”

Solomon stands as a solemn warning that we can gain much education and wisdom but then leave the worship of the true God.

Let us gain an education but stay true to the Lord.

So, what did we learn?

1.God blessed Solomon with great wisdom.

2.In old age, Solomon forsook God and worshipped idols.

3.We must not let our education take us away from God.

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