Solomon misses the point

Solomon often gets a lot of things right during his reign as king of Israel but he also gets an alarming amount of things drastically wrong, the kingdom is split because of his actions as king of Israel.

But most of the time he just misses the greater point:
Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.” (2 Chronicles 8:11 NIV)
Solomon has a good heart here, he wants to honor God and wants to honor the holiness of God and so he wants to keep things that don't measure up to God's standard separate from him, which in Solomon's eyes, and the interpretation of the day, meant no foreigners. The issue is that he really misses the point, the King was only supposed to marry someone from within Jerusalem is what's immediately on view here, so he's already broken the commands to the King but there's more than that he's out on. The king is only to have one wife, this is not his first wife, indeed he has almost 100 wives not to mention his concubines the guy wasn't so much concerned about the rules then. But here Solomon is very concerned which shows that his heart is in the right place, he is concerned about the holiness of God above all else, if you're going to pick one that's not a bad one to focus on.

But for us we need to look at Solomon and learn the lessons from him, it makes no sense to be religiously devout about certain things and not others. Saint Augustine is a great example, he knew that if he became a Christian it would take all of him to do it, he wouldn't go in half heartedly but the whole way changing everything about his life. That's how we need to be, we need to let Jesus change everything about us, not just the bits that are easy but the bits that say "don't marry 99 women" (OK that's easy too) or the bits that say "hey, how about NOT being a jerk" that one's a bit harder