The Strategy (Deu. 25:1719)

5/27/2008 9:40 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time           Focus:  The strategy

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Deu. 25:17-19

            Message of the verses:  “17  "Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, 18  how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.  19  "Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.”

            I want to explain why I have jumped foreword to the book of Deuteronomy, and that is because in the book that I am using to help me study the author wanted to explain more about the battle that Israel had with Amalekites so he moved forward to Deuteronomy to get more of the details.

            There are a number of points in the story of the Amalekites that I want to address in this SD and most of them are spiritual points.  It is good when reading the Word of God to understand the spiritual points from the seemingly physical things that happen in the Bible.  As I look at these verses I see that Amalek ambushed the children of Israel from behind, which was their weakest point for the weak and weary were traveling at the end position.  Satan does this too whenever he attacks a believer, for he will ambush a believer and he will do it at their weakest point.  What is the weakest point of a believer?  Well that depends upon the individual believer for all believers are easily broken in different areas of their life.  There a different lists of sins in the NT such as in Galatians chapter five and not all believers are weak in the same area, but one or more of the sins that are on these different lists are problem areas for each believer.  “19  Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20  idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21  envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these.”  The point is that all believers are weak in certain areas and will be tempted in these areas by Satan.

            The children of Israel were in need of water before they were attacked and God provided a great victory for them in giving them water, for this was a great miracle to receive water out of a rock.  Having a great spiritual victory can usually mean that a believer will then receive an attack from the devil for this is a time when the believer is weak and there are different examples of this in the Bible.  The one that I think about first in this area is the prophet Elijah after he had a great victory in killing all of the priests on Mount Carmel he ran from Jezebel and became very depressed and wanted to end his life.  This is true of believers today as it was in the case with me after my son David had successful open heart surgery at the age of eighteen months and was home from the hospital in a week running and playing like nothing had happened to him, I then had the worse summer of my life spiritually.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  One of the things that I have been taught by the Lord in the spiritual battle that I am going through concerning our investment with Gary is that I trusted the gift from the Giver rather than trusting the Giver of the gifts, and there is a huge difference between these two.  When having a down time after a spiritual victory it will teach me not to trust in the gifts that God has given me to be stewards over but to trust God who is the giver of every good gift.  I have prayed concerning this problem when God will do a miracle and have our funds returned to us that I will be weak, vulnerable to the attacks of Satan and my prayers have been that I would not go through a downward spiral spiritually after God provides this great miracle. 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  That God will lead me today as spoken of in Proverbs 3:5-6; That God will give me victory over temptation as seen in 1 Cor. 10:13; That I will be yoked with the Lord Jesus Christ as seen in Matthew 11:28-30; and that I will learn contentment through the trials and tests of life as seen in Phil. 4:11. 

Memory verses for the week:                                  2 Cor. 12:9-10

9.        And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”  Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

10.   Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distress, with persecutions, with difficulties for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak then I am strong. 

5/27/2008 10:37 AM