Remember the Lord (Num. 15:37-41)

1/7/2009 5:41 PM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                        Focus:  Remember the Lord

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Numbers 15:37-41

            Message of the verses:  “37 ¶  The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying, 38  "Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.  39  "It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40  so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God.  41  "I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God.’”

            This is the forth and last section in Dr. Wiersbe’s book, “Be Counted,” and at the beginning of it he wrote that there were four reasons to obey the Word of God.  This sub-section speaks of how the children of Israel would be helped in remembering the Word of God and the God of the Word by putting a tassel on their outer garments with a blue thread in the tassel which reminds them to obey the Word of God.  It is easy for believers to forget the commandments of the Lord today and also back when the Lord gave this command to the children of Israel.  In the thirty-first chapter of the book of Jeremiah God says that there will be a day coming when He would write His Laws on the hearts of His children and this is also repeated in the book of Hebrews, so that is how I am suppose to remember the commands of the Lord today.  Maybe a tassel would help me too.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  This is one of the most important things for me to do each and every day and it is also one of the hardest things for me to do too, and that is remembering the Lord and His commandments in all of the things that I do each and everyday.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. I want to know the Lord better in this year.
2. I want to continue to learn contentment.
3. I want to trust the Lord to work in my wife’s heart.

Memory verses for the week:                                              Romans 6:16-19

16.      Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

17.      But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,

18.       and having been freed sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

19.      I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.  For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

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