Living in light of eternity

  A couple months ago I was preparing for cataract surgery.   I was going to get new artificial lenses inserted into my eyes.   I knew someone who had already had the procedure.   I asked them what they thought about it.   "Your eye will have a gleam in it afterwards."   I was quick to respond, "I hope no-one gets the wrong impression."- trying to make a little joke.   But afterward I thought over their comment.   I wasn't asking how I would LOOK.   I was asking how I would SEE.   I guess that's one of the problems we have in this age we live in.   We are too concerned with appearance and not enough with perception.   How we look   The prophet Samuel came to Jesse’s family to select the future king of Israel. He looked over all eight sons.   Instead of the tallest and most impressive, Eliab, he chose the youngest and least impressive, David.     But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his ap...

  Solomon certainly started well.  But how did he finish- not so well.  Let's start at the beginning and look at his prayer to God, and God's answer…                      In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, “Ask what you wish me to give you.” Solomon’s Prayer               6      Then Solomon said, “You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.     7      “Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.  ...