4/7/2009 10:14 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: God expected the nation to obey Him
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy 7:23-26
Message of the verses: “23
"But the LORD your God will deliver them before you, and will throw
them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 "He will deliver their kings into your
hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be
able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. 25 "The graven images of their gods you are
to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them,
nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an
abomination to the LORD your God. 26
"You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it
come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it,
for it is something banned.”
Warren
Wiersbe speaks of what James writes at the beginning of his commentary on this
section: “Faith without works is
dead.” “People may talk about faith,
analyze faith, and seek to explain it, but until they do what God commands,
they will never understand what faith is all about.”
God tells Israel that they are to destroy all of the idols
that they will find while they begin to conquer the nations in Canaan , and that they are to burn them and not keep any
of the gold or silver that they are made of for themselves. All that is in the land belongs to the Lord
and Israel
Love of the
Lord is why Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Why do I obey the Lord? This is a good question, and the correct
answer is because of my love for Him, but that is not always the case, for
sometimes I obey Him in order to be blessed by Him, or to show others how
spiritual that I am. Paul writes in
Ephesians 6:5-6: “Slaves, be obedient to
those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in
the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6
not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ,
doing the will of God from the heart.”
As a slave of Jesus Christ I am to obey Him from my heart because of the
love that I have for Him and for no other reason.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Obey the Lord from my heart of love that I have for Him.
- Continue
to learn contentment.
- Trust
the Lord to guide me this day.
- Give
myself to the Lord for worship and service.
Memory verses for the week: Ephesians
1:3-6
- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessings in the heavenly places, in Christ,
- just
as He chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless
before Him. In love
- He
predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the kind intention of His will,
- to the
praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the
Beloved.
- In Him
we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of His grace
- which
He lavished on us. In all wisdom
and insight
4/7/2009 11:03 AM
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