4/17/2009 10:09 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                              Focus:  The discipline of God Part 2

 

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Deuteronomy 9:22-10:11

 

            Message of the verses:  “22  "Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath. 23  "When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God; you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice. 24  "You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I knew you. 25  "So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and nights, which I did because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26  "I prayed to the LORD and said, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 ‘Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin. 28  ‘Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness." 29  ‘Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’

    1 ¶  "At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself. 2  ‘I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.’ 3  "So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 4  "He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten Commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me. 5  "Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me." 6  (Now the sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place. 7  From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8  At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day. 9  Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God spoke to him.) 10  "I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD was not willing to destroy you. 11  "Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

            Moses goes over some of the places where the children of Israel had sinned by not trusting the Lord and he also mentions Kadesh-Barnea which is where the children of Israel wanted to send out 12 spies to spy out the land before they began to go in and take possession of the land, however when the spies returned ten of them came back with a report of how big the people were and that they did not believe that they could defeat them.  What they were really saying was that their God was not big enough to defeat them after He had taken them out of Egypt with a mighty hand and how He had provided for them in the wilderness so that they had food to eat and water to drink.  This is the sin of unbelief is a “sin of the will; it’s tempting the Lord and saying, ‘I will not trust the Lord and do what He commands me to do.’”  This was not the case with Moses, Aaron, Caleb, and Joshua who walked by faith and believe that God could defeat any enemy and overcome every obstacle.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Again I would like to quote from Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on Deuteronomy for this section of my SD:  “When we come to those ‘Kadesh-Barnea’ places in life, when we must claim what God has planned for us and move forward by faith, we must not rebel against God and refuse to trust and obey.  If we do, we may find ourselves wandering through life, failing to accomplish what God has planned for us.  Claiming our inheritance in Christ is one of the major themes of the book of Hebrews, and the writer uses Israel as the main illustration (Heb. 3-4).”

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Trust the Lord to give me strength to console and support Sandy in this difficult situation that we find ourselves in.
2. Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
3. Trust the Lord to continue to teach me and for me to learn contentment.
4. To be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.

 

Memory verses for the week:                                              Ephesians 1:5-9

 

5. He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,
6. to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
8. which He lavished on us.  In all wisdom and insight
9. He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

 

4/17/2009 10:46 AM