The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

1 Kings 8:57-61, “”May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us,

58that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes

and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.

59″And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our

God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day

requires,

60so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else.

61″Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His

commandments, as at this day.”

I’ve always listened carefully to audible prayers. If the person praying is not sincere, it will show in his prayer. Those

whose prayers come genuinely from the heart reveal to their listeners the other’s rich closeness to the LORD Himself.

Solomon had not long been king when he prayed the prayer in our verses above. God was real to Solomon! He was

a God of righteousness, whose ways produced love and faithfulness from His children. Yes, He had statutes and

ordinances and commanded adherance to them. Further, His love and faithfulness to King David drew allegiance from

David’s son, Solomon.

Solomon’s life paralled his prayer. He was the King of Israel, but he was subservient to his King, the LORD God. It was Solomon’s purpose and focus to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes, and to instill them into the lives

of his people, “so that all the peoples of the Earth (might) know that the LORD is God; and that there is no one else.”

For by the lives of the Israelites the nations of the would be influenced toward the LORD. And so it is today, and so has always been. When our hearts are focued on the LORD, and when we are living by His Word, the Scriptures,

those without Christ Jesus cannot help but notice.

So, “be wholly devoted to the LORD…, walk in His statutes, and… keep His commandments.” He is the LORD, and

“there is no one else.”

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”