12/6/2008 10:49 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The numbering & duties of the
Merarites
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Numbers 3:33-37; 4:29-33, 42-45
Message of the verses: I will not copy and paste these verses
because of the length of them. I also
want to say that this study that I am doing does not cover every single verse
in this section of Numbers and one of the reasons is that there is a lot of
repeated things in this section, and I would presume that is why Dr. Wiersbe did
not cover all of these verses, however there are some that he did not cover
that I will attempt to cover at the end of this SD.
The
information in this section of Numbers tells how many Merarite males there were
from two month and older and how many who were able to work the work that is
assigned to them, which was the carrying of the heavy boards and pillars of the
tabernacle as well as the bars, pillars and silver sockets into which the
pillars fit. In Numbers 7:8 it is
revealed that they were given four wagons and eight oxen to aid them in this
task. They were to report to Ithamar, Aaron’s
son, and they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
My God is a
God of organization and there is organization in His Church, and He has gifted
each believer with special gift or gifts in order to make the church that he
goes to function. Now the gifts that
each believer has are not spelled out like the duties that are spelled out in
Numbers to all of the Levites, but that is the responsibility of the Pastors
and leaders of the individual church to help in showing what each gift is given
to the believers in the church in order to minister.
Dr. Wiersbe
points out that this chapter reminds the reader of burden helping and this is
also a part of the function of the Church today. There are some burdens that believers need
help with and there are some that they must bear on their own, just as seen
that two of the groups had carts to help them and one of the groups had to bear
their burden by carrying it on their shoulders.
Now I want
to write about some of the verses that were not covered by Dr. Wiersbe in this
section of Numbers. In verses 38-41 of
Numbers four there is a review of the numbers of the three clans who were to
work in the work of the tabernacle.
In Numbers
3:33-39 there is another review of the clan’s responsibilities and how many are
numbered. In Numbers 3:40-52 there is
also given orders to Moses to number the Levites: “40 ¶ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Number
every firstborn male of the sons of Israel Israel , and the cattle of the Levites instead of
all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel Israel ’s
last night in Egypt God intuited the Passover celebration and part of the
Passover was putting blood on the thresholds of the doors so that the death
angel would not come and kill the first-born of Israel Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: “When God’s work is done God’s way, in
obedience to God’s truth, it will never lack God’s blessings.” This is a quote from Dr. Wiersbe and as I
have read through this section of Numbers this truth comes out, and this truth
is also in the book of Ephesians, the book that tells about how the church is
to function today and I want to be a part of how the church functions that is
revealed in the book of Ephesians.
My Steps of Faith for
Toda:
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service and to have my life changed by the renewing of my mind by memorizing Scripture.
- Put on my spiritual armor.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Learn contentment.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to search my heart.
Memory verses for this week: Romans
6:1-9
- What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
- May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
- Or do you not know that all of us have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
- Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into His death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
- For is we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
- knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin,
- for he who has died is freed form sin.
- Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
- knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
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