What do you think of when you hear the word “plague?” Some of us might go directly to the Old Testament plagues: pestilence, blight, famine, locusts, etc.
I was reading in the book of 1 Kings recently and was struck by a phrase the Solomon tucked into the middle of a long prayer of dedication after the temple was completed.
“Whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward the temple, then hear in heaven…and forgive…and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men)…
Ah, suddenly the plague is getting very personal. No longer a thing that comes from without, this is the inward plague that resides in our hearts, the sins that uniquely characterize us. It reminded me of Jeremiah 17:9:
“The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. Who can understand it?”
Who indeed? The Lord alone knows the hearts of men. I don’t know what your besetting sins are, but I know the plague of my own heart and so does He. And through Christ, He hears in heaven and forgives.
ALLELUIA!
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That was an interesting use of the word “plague” Solomon used, but a very true description and something to meditate on. Thanks be to Jesus who is “the cure” for our plague.
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Amen!
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