RESPONDING TO BOUNDARIES

RESPONDING TO BOUNDARIES

1 Kings 2:37 (NKJV)“For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross the Brook Kidron, know for certain you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head.” Life is full of boundaries. Everyone has boundaries. We live and function within boundaries. Some...
RESPONDING TO BOUNDARIES

NEVER RELEASE THE HORN!

1 Kings 2:30 (NKJV)“So Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said to him, ‘Thus says the king, Come out!’ And he said, ‘No, but I will die here.’ And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, ‘Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.’” In our last...
RESPONDING TO BOUNDARIES

UNLIMITED MERCY

1 Kings 2:29 (NKJV)”And King Solomon was told, ‘Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the LORD; there he is, by the altar.’ Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, ‘Go, strike him down.’” Many of the illustrations and formations in the Old Testament were a...
RESPONDING TO BOUNDARIES

PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT

1 Kings 2:27 (NKJV)“So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, that he might fulfill the word of the LORD which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.” While we know that God is just and does not show preferential treatment, in a way, He does....
RESPONDING TO BOUNDARIES

GIVE MERCY

1 Kings 1:53 (NKJV)“So King Solomon sent them to bring him down from the altar. And he came and fell down before King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, ‘Go to your house.’” In the last devotion, we quoted James 2:13, which says in part, “For judgment is without mercy...