A Promise

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?” I Kings 2.10-12; 3:3-14

In the Old Testament reading appointed for today, God appears to Solomon right after he has been appointed king and asks him what God can give to him. Rather than asking for riches and power, Solomon asks for an understanding heart and the discernment to know God's will. God was so pleased with this answer that God said,

“Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, I now do according to your word. Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you. If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.”

As I finished reading this passage and listening to Dean Kate's meditation, I looked out the window to this gorgeous rainbow, God's quintessential sign of promise...Just as God kept God's promise to Solomon, so God keeps God's promise to us...all will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well.

What do you think when you see a rainbow?