Heart's Desire

2 Chronicles 1:11
God said to Solomon, "Since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for wealth, riches or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king,

Second Chronicles begins. I looked for the last time this even came up, and it was some 40 hearts ago, in 1 Kings 3:10-14. So I will simply take it at face value, not to worry what I wrote last time.
The setting for this incident is described in the first verses of the book and chapter. Solomon's whole entourage--everybody who was anybody in Israel--went up to Gibeon, also described as a high place. Why? "God's Tent of Meeting was there, which Moses the LORD's servant had made in the desert."
This blows me away. The actual Tabernacle, with the woven panels and the various protective leather panels, was at Gibeon. So was the bronze altar, which was why they went there.
The Ark had its own tent, in Jerusalem, thanks to David, but apparently everything else was at Gibeon. Now this is sort of interesting as regards the worship. The Ark was the location of God's presence, and it still had its power. Witness the incident in which it took badly to the unauthorized touch of a hand.
Yet it had been removed from its home in Moses' Tabernacle. Was it as if the heart was taken out of an organism? But God is good and merciful, and perhaps even then He was moving toward a more spiritual, less material worship.
Because He certainly met Solomon at Gibeon after the sacrifices. Wisdom and knowledge are called his heart's desire, and God granted it.
Which leads me to ask myself, what is my heart's desire? With my conscious energy, I try to make it more and more...only Jesus.