12/22/2008 5:43 PM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Complaining to God’s servant
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Numbers 11:1-3
Message of the verses: “1 The people soon began to complain to the
LORD about their hardships; and when the LORD heard them, his anger blazed
against them. Fire from the LORD raged among them and destroyed the outskirts
of the camp. 2 The people screamed to
Moses for help; and when he prayed to the LORD, the fire stopped. 3 After that, the area was known as
Taberah—" the place of burning"—because fire from the LORD had burned
among them there.”
The
title of this section of verses today is “The Jews complain.”
It
did not take Israel long to begin to complain to God about their hardships that
they faced while on the road and this seems just like the complaining they did
right after crossing the Red Sea through a miracle from the Lord, for after
three days they began to complain to the Lord about not having enough
water. I realize that it is easy to talk
about the children of Israel and all of the griping that they did to God right
after all of the miracles that He preformed for them, and in this case right
after being in camp for a year and receiving the Law, and the tabernacle and
realizing that God was not with them and was leading them to the Promised Land,
and yet they lacked a great deal of faith.
It
could have been lighting that struck some of those people who were griping and
causing trouble, and it could have been the “mixed Multitude” who were causing
the trouble because they were on the outskirts of the people.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I hope that I would be like Joshua and Caleb,
and that I demonstrate the same kind of faith that they demonstrated when they
first entered the Promised Land to scout it out and felt that the Lord would be
take care of those who were living there just as He said that He would. My faith is not always as strong as it needs
to be but I want it to continue to grow.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Trust the Lord to guide my path each and every day.
- Trust the Lord to keep me close to Him through His Word, and through prayer.
- Trust the Lord to help me to learn contentment.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
6:5-1 5
- For if we have become united with Him through 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 is freed from sin.
- Now if we have died with Him, 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.
- Therefore do no let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
- 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.
- For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
- What then? Shall we sin because we are on longer under grace? May it never be!
12/22/2008 6:11 PM
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