12/11/2008 9:55 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Separation defiled
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Numbers 6:9-12
Message of the verses: “9
‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated
head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he
shall shave it on the seventh day.
10 ‘Then on the eighth day he
shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway
of the tent of meeting. 11 ‘The priest shall offer one for a sin
offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him
concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall
consecrate his head, 12 and shall
dedicate to the LORD his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year
old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his
separation was defiled.”
In these
three verses it is made known what a person is to do if the vow that he made to
the Lord was suddenly broken due to no fault of their own. Since God is in control of all things if a
person who had made this Nazirite vow had a person die suddenly right beside
him and he touched that dead person his vow was then broken and he had to wait
for seven days and then cut off his hair because that was part of the vow to
allow his hair to continue to grow. If
he had finished his vow the hair would have been part of the sacrifice, (Verse
18). Since he did not finish the vow his
hair would not be part of the sacrifice, but he would have to offer sacrifices
to the Lord on the eight day after the vow was suddenly stopped.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I love the statement that Dr. Wiersbe puts in
many of his books that is from a Presbyterian minister Alexander Whyte who
said, “The victorious Christian life is a series of new beginnings.” There had been many new beginnings in my walk
with the Lord and I am thankful for believing that I can have new beginnings in
my walk with the Lord. I wish that there
were not so many new beginnings, but by God’s grace He picks me up and dusts me
off and puts me on my way again.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Make sure that I have a prayer time.
- Give myself to the Lord for service, worship, and to have a renewed mind.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Learn contentment, as it is a life long process for me.
- Put on my spiritual armor.
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 who 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 Christ 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 from sin.
- Now if we 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 unto God.
- Even so consider yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive God in Jesus Christ.
12/11/2008 10:29 AM
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