10/31/2008 9:30 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The Day of Atonement: Forgiveness
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Leviticus 23:26-32
Message of the verses: “26
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27
"On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of
atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your
souls and present an offering by fire to the LORD. 28
"You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of
atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the LORD your God. 29
"If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same
day, he shall be cut off from his people.
30 "As for any person who
does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his
people. 31 "You shall do no work at all. It is to
be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling
places. 32 "It is to be a sabbath of complete rest
to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening,
from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath.’”
This
section was already studied in Leviticus chapter sixteen. God, through Moses, speaks here of the
fasting and the praying and not doing any work on this wonderful Day of
Atonement.
Paul writes
in Ephesians 2:8-9 “8 For by grace you
have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of
God; 9 not as a result of works, so that
no one may boast.” As I think of these
verses with what God emphasized in the section above it reminds me that I did
not have to do any work in order to receive the free gift of salvation.
Dr. Wiersbe
points out that the “prophetic message of the Day of Atonement is that when Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: A I look over the verses from Ephesian it
says that the gift of salvation is just that a gift of God and that I am not to
boast about it. I have to admit that
there are times when I do think of myself as better that those who do not have
this free gift in a way that is not becoming to a true believer.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- As God to make me more humble when it comes to thinking that I am better than those who at this time in their lives do not have the free gift of salvation and that instead of looking down on some of them I am to pray for them to receive this gift.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus
20:17 & Romans 6:1-2
17.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you
shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant
or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
- What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may increase?
- May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
10/31/2008 10:04 AM
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