Protecting Yourself

Why did Adonijah ask to be given Abishag (one of Daivd's wives)? What was that all about?

If Solomon acknowledged Adonijah's right to have one of David's wives (or any "property" from David), he was also acknowledging that Adonijah had a legitimate legal claim to the throne. Especially since Adonijah was the older brother. So Solomon was protecting himself. Solomon, in his wisdom, knew that Adonijah could not to be trusted and was using his mother, Bathsheba, to try to take the throne away from Solomon. So, he had him killed to protect the kingdom.

We had good discussion around this passage and the things in our lives that threaten us.

What do we need to do to protect ourselves from Satan's attacks (1 Peter 5:8) on our walk with God? What actions, attitudes, influences, etc. do we need to "put to death"? What would that look like?

Share your thoughts so we all grow through this passage.

Blessings,
Roger

Firmly Established

Last Wednesday we spent some more time talking about what it means for us to be "firmly established" in our Christian journey. Allen had some thoughts on this in his comments on last weeks post that we discussed.

We had a good time sharing about what we struggle to do and where we've seen some success in our daily walk to keep "established" and even mature in our walk with Christ. We also talked about some of the things that keep us from being "firmly established", like pride, not staying consistent in the Word, etc.

Then we talked about how we help each other. We discussed accountability and the different ways that can look depending on lots of things like personality and the specific isuse. We all agreed that accountabilty has to be encouraging, it might be tough, but we need to really come along side each other in our needs.

Tomorrow we will start at verse 13 of chapter 2 and see what else we can learn from Solomon's life.

Blessings,
Roger