Submiting to God

01/29/2007

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  Submitting To God

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 31:53-55

            Message of the verses:  “53  "The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

54  Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmen to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.  55  Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.”

            Jacob has this problem with Laban and so he decided to leave and not tell Laban that he was leaving, and now Laban comes to attack Jacob and take his daughters and grand-children away from him, but the Lord would not allow this to happen, and now it may be that Jacob feels that he should have been straight with Laban and tell him that he was leaving.  At any rate Jacob submits to the Lord as seen in verse 53 when he speaks of God judging between he and Laban, and so Jacob is leaving it in the hands of God to do with the situation what He wants to do with it and Jacob will accept it.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I have had a problem with software and CD’s, as far as giving them to other people or having them give them to me without paying for them.  The situation is this time when I bought the Tommy Nelson CD’s on Ecclesiastes that I wanted a friend of mine to listen to them so I put them on my flash drive so he could listen to them on his computer, but it did not work so I put them on a CD and he copied them to his hard drive and this has been bothering me.  I have come to the conclusion that if I buy a CD and make a copy for family members that this is okay, because I have kept it in the family, but leave it at that, and this went beyond that.  Now I have lost my flash drive and also my cell phone yesterday and have a guilty conscience about this because I think that it is possible that the Lord is disciplining me for what I did with my friend.  After reading Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on this I have come to the conclusion that perhaps the best thing to do is to accept this discipline, if indeed that is what it is, and trust the Lord to continue to work in my life as Jacob did in verse 53.

The Word of God was convicting, refreshing and also very challenging to my heart as I read and studied it this morning.

My Steps of Faith Today:  Trust the Lord to continue to work in my life and to mold me into the kind of person that He wants me to be.