June 28 The African Queen
June 28
The African Queen
The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here.”
—Matthew 12:42
The queen of Sheba had serious questions about God and His ways and His will. Not content to sit on her questions, she set out on a spiritual quest that took her on a journey more than a thousand miles over land and sea. It was a lengthy and dangerous trip, especially for a woman.
But the queen’s search was not a mere intellectual exercise. “When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relation to the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind. Solomon answered all her questions” (1 Kings 10:1, 3).
If you have serious questions about God, His ways, and His will, don’t sit on your curiosity. Let your thirst for God take you on a journey of questioning. It’s okay to have doubts and to wrestle with spiritual issues. And like the queen of Sheba, who left Israel fully satisfied, God delights in giving answers to our hardest questions.
This African queen paid a high price in time, travel, and trouble. How many of us are willing to seek after God in this way?
In Matthew 12:42 Jesus commends the queen of Sheba. Out of all the seekers in the Old Testament, our Lord picked this African woman as a model of spiritual thirst and hunger.
Jesus, You are the one greater than Solomon. If the king of Israel was so willing to satisfy the queen of Sheba, how much more willing You are to fulfill my spiritual thirst and hunger. May I find all of my answers in You, dear Lord