# 1 Kings 01 #soap ## Title: God’s Plan Takes Many Turns ## Scripture: (1 Kings 1:47) “The king’s servants have even come to congratulate our master King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ Then the king leaned on the bed” (NET) ## Observation: This chapter looks like absolute chaos. How can you make sense of all this? How can we say that Solomon became king by any other means than scheming, trickery, and pure luck? That may be the way it seems to us, but God was at work. God, in His wisdom, has chosen to work with us, not against us. He uses who we are and what we have to accomplish His will. Therefore, He was using and orchestrating things to make His will happen. This gives us peace because we don’t have to always understand what the Lord is doing. We simply trust that He will ultimately accomplish His will, His way, for His purposes… and it is always good. ## Application: Trust the Lord and His odd way of causing things to happen. It’s odd to us, but wiser than we can comprehend. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for being trustworthy.