![]() They were not speaking of what was in their hearts. Jesus Christ answered some people “never a word.” He looked dumb. We now put questions merely for the sake of putting them, and to such questions kind heaven is dumb. Civilisation has lent new resources to hypocrisy. We nowadays cannot get at people’s hearts. “She communed with him of all that was in her heart” (verse 2). The interview with the king was long-continued and marked by supreme confidence. The Queen of Sheba represented the common desire of the world. We must not be mere receivers we must be suppliants intensely interested in our own prayers, and so enriched with patience and with the grace of rational expectation, that God may see us in a waiting posture, and know that we are tarrying until the door open, or the answer in some way come. Persons who do not put themselves to trouble in order to have their case stated and considered are not in a fit position to receive communications from heaven. Therefore she became a prepared listener. She put herself to trouble on her own spiritual account. ![]() She travelled northward, mile by mile, day by day and the miles seemed nothing, and the days flew away, because her heart was full of a great hope that at last she would receive solutions to problems which had filled her with the spirit of unrest. The Queen of Sheba was herein a model inquirer. The inquiry is never the same in substance it may be identical, but in spirit, in tone, in quality, there is always a critical point and measure of difference, which every man realises for himself, and must insist upon making clear to the person to whom his inquiries are addressed. That is what every earnest inquirer must insist upon. She would have her own questions put in her own way. She thought she knew something which even he could not answer. She was not content with the reports which she had heard in her own land. The Queen of Sheba was an earnest inquirer. As it was with the Queen of Sheba, so it is with every spirit-taught and spirit-led soul, as to the knowledge and adoration, and worship of Christ. The conduct of the Queen of Sheba is what ought to be the conduct of every soul in regard to Divine things. Hard questions arise when the mind thinks at all about spiritual things, and recur all through the Christian’s experience. We observe in the experience of the Queen of Sheba the ordinary workings of the spirit of God in the heart. ![]() ![]() Every child of God can tell of such in his own experience. In the lives of saints and holy men of old, whether in the Scriptures or in private biographies, many such wonderful leadings of Providence can be admired. We see in this history how the purposes of God are sure to be accomplished and fulfilled. Rahab of Jericho, Ruth the Moabitess, Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, the King of Nineveh, and other interesting characters may be cited, along with this Queen of Sheba, to whom God came in the sovereignty and freeness of His grace. The calling of God is not confined to any time or place or people. The sovereignty of God’s election, and the freeness of His covenant mercy and grace, are set forth in her being brought to the knowledge of the truth and being taught and led by the Spirit of God. We have illustrations of God’s dealings with His people, and of the workings of Divine grace, in the following particulars relating to the Queen of Sheba. In this history, there are various points of view wherein the Queen of Sheba appears as a type and representation of the Church, as we know that Solomon is in many respects a striking type of Christ. When the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon.
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