1 Kings 10

1Ki 10:6
Then she said to the king: "It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.

What brave words! Having to admit another person's strength over ours is aways something I am sure everyone finds hard to do, yet Queen of Sheba had the humility and courage to accept the truth.

This incident of the gentile queen of Sheba and how she seeks of Soloman's wisdom is also an analogy of how we come to seek Jesus in the last days. I saw my friend's testimony in the story of Queen of Sheba.

"came to test him with hard questions."
My friend was at first still skeptical when she finally decided to come back to church, and I remembered her many questions that she brought up.

"she spoke with him about all that was in her heart."
I saw how she sincerely sought after the answers to those questions, not just to challenge.

"So Solomon answered all her questions"
And I thank God that He provided someone to answer all her queries patiently.

I was most touched by her sms that night, thanking me and telling me how all her questions were answered. I could really see God's guiding hand in all these.

Similarly, I believe that if we come with a heart to seek the truth, and also have the courage and humility to accept the truth once we have been made known the truth, God's blessings will come right after, like how the queen was blessed.

"Now King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, besides what Solomon had given her according to the royal generosity."

The problem with the world today is: we are too smart for our own good, or at least, we think we are smart. This has caused us to be unwilling to admit when someone is better or greater than us. Precisely because the Christian message is that there is Someone out there bigger and greater than us, who is sovereign over us, that some are put off by it.

But why?

Come and hear. Have your hard questions ready, with a heart not to challenge but to receive answers, and come. Pour out your hearts and have your questions amazingly answered by God. And when you have come to a realization of the truth, do not dismiss it, but accept it and exclaim, "It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom!"

It is really a test of humility here. Remember that the queen of Sheba was a queen. She was a queen from another land, yet she was ready to accept the fact that Soloman was the wisest and wealthiest king ever lived!

Queen of Sheba was also known as the queen of the South. From blueletterbible.org, Matthew Henry commentary says that '"Our Saviour calls her the queen of the south, for Sheba lay south of Canaan." We also remember Jesus' words here.

Matthew 12:38-42
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You."
But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
"The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.
"The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

If even a gentile queen can travel such a distance to seek after the wisdom of Soloman, how much more should the people of God seek after the Anointed one, who is far greater than Soloman! Yet, the Pharisees and scribes were blinded. Today, we are the people of God. Let us be careful not to commit this same mistake, lest we shall also be condemned. Let us always remember to seek Christ and His glory.

Another interesting point to note is how people of outside Israel all seemed to have heard of the LORD God. Even as far as Sheba, the queen had heard of "the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD". Remember also Rahab (Joshua 2:9-13)? What do you make of this?