11/29/2006
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Rebekah’s Scheming
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Genesis 27:6-10
Message of the verse: “6 ¶ Rebekah said to her son Jacob, ‘Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying, 7 ‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.’
8 ‘Now therefore, my son, listen to me as I command you. 9 ‘Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves. 10 ‘Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.’”
As I wrote in the last SD it is easy to look at Rebekah in this situation and think that she was doing the right thing, however she, like her mother-in-law before her was scheming and trying to help out God and not wait for the Lord to do what it is that He had promised to do in his own time and therefore it was sin on her part in doing this scheming.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I do a lot more scheming to get my way that perhaps I would like to admit or even know that I am doing it when I do it. This whole thing is all about waiting, waiting on the Lord for His perfect timing to accomplish the things that He wants to accomplish in my life, and the plain fact is that it is hard to wait, and yet waiting teaches me to have patience, patience to trust the Lord and to get the very best that He has for me. My daughter tells me that I like her are in God’s “waiting room,” and this is a place of not only waiting, but is a place of learning and growing.
The Word of God has been convicting, challenging, and refreshment to my heart as I read and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today: Not to scheme, but wait on the Lord and to learn the things that He has for me to learn in His “waiting room.” To learn contentment along with godliness.
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