Go Find Out for Yourself

The Queen of Sheba ran her own kingdom — a wealthy, powerful African nation. She wasn’t someone who needed anyone’s approval. So when reports about King Solomon’s wisdom kept reaching her, she could easily have just nodded along with the hype like everyone else.

Instead, she did something most people never bother to do: she decided to go check it out herself. She loaded up a massive caravan — camels, gold, spices, jewels — and crossed a serious distance to get answers. That’s a long trip to take just because you refuse to run on secondhand information.

And when she got there, she didn’t make small talk. The text says she told Solomon “all that she had on her mind” and tested him with “hard questions.” She brought her real doubts and her toughest challenges, not the safe, polite ones. She actually wanted to know.

Here’s the thing she models that’s rare at any age: she was willing to be convinced. A lot of people ask hard questions only to win an argument. She asked them to find the truth — and when Solomon answered every one, she let herself be genuinely amazed instead of pretending she knew it all along.

Then comes the move that takes real humility. A queen — rich, accomplished, used to being the most impressive person in the room — looks at what she found and gives the credit upward: “Praise be to the Lord your God.” She recognized that the wisdom in front of her ultimately came from God, and she said so out loud.

That’s the whole pattern for you: don’t coast on rumors about God or settle for what everyone else says is true. Go find out for yourself. Bring your honest, hard questions. And when you actually encounter something real, be secure enough to be amazed — and to give God the credit.