12/14/2008 6:13 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: A generous people
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Numbers 7:1-89
Message of the verses: As mentioned before chapter seven of Numbers
is the longest chapter in the Pentateuch and much of it is a repeat of what the
children of Israel Israel
“10
¶ And the princes offered for the
dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes
offered their oblation before the altar.
11 And Jehovah said unto Moses,
They shall offer their oblation, each prince on his day, for the dedication of
the altar. 12 And he that offered his oblation the first
day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: 13 and
his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and
thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal–offering; 14 one golden spoon of
ten shekels, full of incense; 15 one
young bullock, one ram, one he–lamb a year old, for a burnt–offering; 16 one male of the goats for a sin–offering;
17 and for the sacrifice of
peace–offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he–goats, five he–lambs a year old:
this was the oblation of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.” Not it should be pointed out that this all
happened on the first day of the first month of the second year after coming
out of Egypt, and this was the time when the tabernacle was finished and so it
was dedicated to the Lord for service.
Exodus chapter forty also tells about this.
Another
thing about this is that the leaders of the tribes of Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It can be seen here and also in Exodus that
these people were a very generous people who gave many things to the Lord for
the work of building and maintaining the tabernacle. Dr. Wiersbe points out in his commentary on
this chapter that God deals with individuals as seen in the Scriptures. God has all of the names of His children
written in the Lambs book of life and He also has those who have not accepted
the free gift of salvation in other books that will be brought out at the Great
White Throne Judgments that is described in the later chapters of
Revelations. I am accountable of doing
what it is that God has called me to do and I will be judged on how I have
handled the things that God has given me to do.
(See Ephesians 2:10)
I
believe that if I had some things to do over in my life that one of the things
that would be different would be how I handled the money that God has given me
to handle, but I have to remember that “The victorious Christian life is a
series of new beginnings.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Give
myself to the Lord for service, worship, and to be transformed by the renewing
of my mind.
2. Trust
the Holy Spirit to search my heart.
3. Continue
to learn contentment.
4. Put
on the spiritual armor.
Memory verses for the week: Romans 6:5-13
5. For
if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we
shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6. 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,
7. for
he who has died is freed from sin.
8. Now
if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9. knowing
that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no
longer is master over Him.
10. For
the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He
lives, He lives to God.
11. Even
so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12. Therefore
do not let sing reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13. and
do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
12/14/2008 6:50 AM
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