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Give Your servant an understanding heart!

Give Your servant an understanding heart!


" Give Your servant an understanding heart! " 1 Kings 3:9

In order to live and act aright—we require not only good mental capacity, but "an understanding heart."

In order to profit under communications of Divine truth—we require a disposition to receive it, as well as a mind to apprehend it.

Many know the way in which they should walk—and go in a contrary direction.
Many know the truth—but do not love it; they have clear notions in their heads—but darkness in their hearts.

How excellent is the petition of the text, "Give Your servant an understanding heart!" Give me, O Lord, not only an apprehension of what is right and true—-but a disposition to embrace and follow it. May I love Your will—and walk according to it.

We may ask God for some things, and be denied. However desirable they may appear to us—they may not be good for us, and so they may be withheld.

But if we seek spiritual wisdom, if we ask for an understanding heart—then our prayer will assuredly be answered; for the Lord has promised to give wisdom to all who earnestly desire it.

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