There are some bible verses that send a shiver down my spine
– ones that have a certain ‘tingle-factor’. Revelation 1 v.8 is one such verse:
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is, and who
was, and who is to come, the Almighty.’ God is impossibly and unfathomably powerful
somehow standing inside, outside and all through time.
I find the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba described
in 2 Chronicles 9 fascinating. The two
rulers shower each other with worldly bling, and yet it is clear that the queen
is attracted and impressed most of all by Solomon’s wisdom rather than his
wealth. There must have been something in the way that Solomon answered her
questions that made her see that God’s love for His people lay behind all that
she was seeing and hearing. Solomon was
acting as an ambassador for God – a sort of Old Testament evangelist (if you
can have such a thing). The part of this story that intrigues me most comes in
verse 12: King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba Sheba
(member of the congregation)