12/13/2008 10:40 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: A blessed people
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Numbers 6:22-27
Message of the verses: “22 ¶ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying,
‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel Israel
There are
times when I begin to look at the verses that I am studying and then look at
the commentary by Dr. Wiersbe and just wonder where it is that I will begin
because the passage is so overwhelming to me, and this is one of those
times. I have heard and read this
passage many times, but I could not have told you where it was in the
Bible. I seems to just be there and come
out of nowhere to me, for it comes right after the verses about the Nazirite
vows and right before the longest chapter in the Pentateuch.
God tells
Moses that the priests, the sons of Aaron are to give this blessing to the
children of Israel Israel ,
but He has also blessed the nation of Israel Israel His written Word after He rescued them by
His grace from the bondage of Egypt Israel
The trinity
can also be seen in this blessing, for it can be seen in the Scriptures that
the Lord is Father, Psalm 110:1, Son, Romans 10:9, and Spirit, 2 Cor. 3:17.
Now I want
to focus in on the word “peace,” or in the Hebrew, “shalom.” Here is how the dictionary in the Online
Bible has described “peace:”
1) completeness, soundness, welfare, peace
1a) completeness (in number)
1b) safety, soundness (in body)
1c) welfare, health, prosperity
1d) peace, quiet, tranquility, contentment
1e) peace, friendship
1e1) of human relationships
1e2) with God especially in covenant relationship
1f) peace (from war)
1g) peace (as adjective)
Peace is much more than an absence from troubles as seen in
the many definitions above. Peace
“involves quietness of heart within us, spiritual health and spiritual
prosperity, adequacy for the demands of life, and the kind of spiritual
we-being that rises above circumstances.
George Morrison defined ‘peace’ as ‘the possession of adequate
resources.’”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I can understand a little bit more about
putting on the spiritual armor, especially the part about putting on the “shoes
of the gospel of peace.” God’s peace is
a very deep well of wealth that needs to be understood more by me. God’s peace has to be part of His character
“goodness of God.” Paul wrote about
peace being adequate resources in Philippians 4:6-20.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord today for worship, service, and to be transformed through the renewing of my mind.
- Put on the spiritual armor.
- Learn contentment, which is part of the adequate recourses of peace.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
6:1-11
- 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 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 if we have become untied with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also 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 if freed from 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.
- For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
- Even so consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12/13/2008 11:47 AM
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