Week 17: Biblical wisdom - Solomon
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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Summary
Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. (1 Kings 3:9)
Solomon is the biblical king who is most known for his wisdom. One night, God came to Solomon in a dream and asked him what he wanted from God. Solomon asked for wisdom. He could have asked for anything: health, wealth, or defeating his enemies, but he asked for wisdom, and this made God really happy.
God is ready and willing to share his wisdom with us; all we have to do is ask for it. But in a world where incredible knowledge is literally at our fingertips, it’s easy to overlook biblical wisdom. Earthly wisdom is knowing a lot of math, being well read, and having strong financial literacy; it’s knowing all the answers on Jeopardy. Biblical wisdom is living within the will of God through the Holy Spirit. It’s relying on God to know how to treat people, what activities to participate in, what is right versus wrong, and so on.
God delights in us asking him for wisdom! The Bible says he was pleased with Solomon when he did this (1 Kings 3:10), and he is pleased with us when we do it as well. When it comes to our kids, we desire for them to seek God’s wisdom to make decisions. We model this to them first and encourage them to make wise choices when it comes to friends, where to go to school, acting with integrity, and whether to go to that party. God cares about all of those things, and he will share his wisdom about them with our kids when they ask for it.
This week, let’s pray that our kids ask for God’s wisdom and know that true wisdom isn’t just knowing what to do—it’s acting upon that wisdom as well.
Lord, give __________ a heart like Solomon’s, one that values your wisdom above all else. Keep their heart open, ready to listen to your Holy Spirit. We want them to grow wise in every aspect, but to help them make choices that honor you, always acting upon the wisdom you give them. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey, friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and I hope you had a great Christmas and got some good time, but it's likely that some of you had a hard week. |
| 0:24.9 | And I remember that a few years ago when Ron was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. |
| 0:29.3 | And it was just hard. |
| 0:30.7 | It was really different. |
| 0:32.5 | And so I'm just thinking of you guys going to be praying for you today. |
| 0:35.3 | If just the kids were bad or you've got an illness in the, or you've just lost a parent. This can be really, |
| 0:41.6 | really hard. But as I pray today, I love this topic because we're praying about biblical |
| 0:46.3 | wisdom, not just any wisdom, but biblical wisdom and the story of Solomon. And so I pray that |
| 0:52.5 | this is something that you just ponder on this week, is maybe you |
| 0:55.8 | love goals and setting things for the new year. But I think we can get ahead of ourselves with what |
| 1:01.0 | we want to accomplish, what seems successful in the world's eyes or what we want our kids to |
| 1:05.1 | do differently. And we kind of skip past Jesus. And so I think this is a great pause to say, |
| 1:10.2 | like, Lord, we want you to give us |
| 1:13.0 | wisdom on what to do this year. What's the best use of our time? How do we need to handle a |
| 1:17.7 | situation with our finances or our spouse or our kids and not get ahead of what we feel like |
| 1:22.5 | we should do or what other people are telling us to do? But how do we spend our time in light of biblical wisdom? |
| 1:29.0 | So we read about Solomon and First Kings, and he is the guy that he could have asked anything |
| 1:34.5 | from God, from help to wealth to defeating his enemies, but he asks God for wisdom. |
| 1:40.9 | And it really gives you the idea that God is happy with that. He's ready and willing to share |
| 1:45.2 | his wisdom. In 1 Kings 3.9, it says, give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people |
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