1 Kings 4:20-34
Note the connection between vv. 20 and 29. The people and the king’s heart have a common dimension: that of the sand of the sea-shore. In other words, God has given to His anointed a heart large enough to encompass and to love all this great nation for which he is now responsible. Likewise, the Lord’s love is great enough to embrace the whole company of those who belong to Him, and the multitude of them does not overwhelm it. Dear fellow-believer, He loves you as much as if you were the only redeemed one. We shall never come to the end of knowing and understanding "the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge" (Ephesians 3:18-19).
This lovely representation of Christ’s millennial reign evokes the rest that the whole creation will finally enjoy, after having so long groaned under the "bondage of corruption" (Romans 8:19-22). Solomon spoke of beasts, of birds, of creeping things and of fishes. Christ, the "Son of Man", according to Psalms 8, "crowned with glory and honour", will exercise lordship over all the works of God’s hand: "All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!" (Psalms 8:5-9).