For Your Inspiration
Against All Odds You Can Excel
by Eturuvie Erebor
I
f it appears that the odds are against
you and that you cannot excel, perhaps
because you do not come from the right
family, did not go to the right school, do not
come from or live in the right country, do not
know the right people, or perhaps have made
mistakes which disqualify you from the future
you want; if you look at your present situation
and the dreams you have for your future and
you can’t see how you will go from where you
are to where you want to be because the gap
appears too wide for comfort, and you think
you will never make it or that you must of
necessity settle for second best, the truth is,
no matter what the odds are, you can excel
and you do not have to settle for second best.
Solomon became king against all odds.
Of all the children David had do you think
that Solomon was the best qualified to be
king after his father? No, he was not and the
first thing that disqualified him was that he
was not the first son of his father; as a matter of fact, if the order of seniority had been
followed, Solomon would never have become
king as he was very far from the throne in
terms of his birth position in the family. He
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had brothers who were grown men at the
time he was born.
Another thing that disqualified Solomon
was the fact that his mother was not one of
the first wives of his father, David. She was,
in the order of hierarchy, one of the last wives
and so by reason of her position, her son
should not even have been considered for the
position of king.
Then there is of course the issue of
whether his mother was properly married to
his father. There is no mention of them marrying; we only assume that at some point they
married. Even if they were married, the manner in which their relationship began was sufficient to disqualify any child born in the union
from becoming king. The story of his parents’
affair was one that although they tried to keep
it a secret initially, it became the talk of not
only those in the palace but everyone in Israel.
It was David’s biggest mistake as king; he took
the wife of another man, got her pregnant and
killed the husband in a bid to hide what he
had done. God was very angry with both of
them and judged their sin by killing the child
that was conceived in their adulterous union.