When is enough, enough. The young Solomon was content to only ask for wisdom. But the riches and success that followed, the fortune that God promised him because of his selfless request, became a snare. He was not satisfied with just one of anything. He accumulated chariots and horses, fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thouseand horses. He made silver as common as stones and cedar as plentiful as fig trees. But even all of that wealth might not have been enough to enslave him. It was the women that brought his downfall. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines who became his focus. If Solomon was going to keep all of those wives happy, he was not going to have the time or the inclination to worry about God. Instead, he let the women lead him astray and ended up worshipping the gods of his wives.
You can have too much. You can have so much that you no longer have the time to devote to a relationship with God. You can have so much that, just like Solomon, it pulls you in every direction but the right one.
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