April 13, 2010

Today's reading: I Kings 10, 11, 12; Psalm 13, 43, 73, 103, 133; Proverbs 13

I Kings 10:1, "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions."

I remember several years ago at the Church we were attending at the time the Pastor started a men's group called "Iron Man". I loved it so much. It was a group of men that would keep one another accountable. We met monthly as an entire group. The bigger group was divided up into smaller groups of 4 or 6. These groups would meet every week. We had a group of about six (6) questions that we would ask one another to determine how we were doing each week. I liked it because I did not want to disappoint the Lord or anyone else by not doing my daily Bible reading or having daily prayer time. There were other important things that were in the accountability questions also.

I remember one man in the Church that I wanted to join the group because I really liked him; but, he refused. He told me that he made a vow to God as a younger man and it was all he could do to keep those vows and he did not want to make more that he would have to keep. This was not his exact words; but, I understood what he was saying.

I loved to go into the meetings and be able to say that I had read my Bible everyday and prayed everyday. It was such a satisfying feeling. Some of the other questions were not as easy to answer because I had usually failed them and I did not want to admit that I had failed. Such is life I guess.

So, if I asked you the hard questions today could you answer them? I hope so.