Love for the Lord (Covenant) (Deu. 6:1-3)

3/28/2009 7:44 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                              Focus:  Love for the Lord (Covenant)

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Deuteronomy 6:1-3

 

            Message of the verses:  “1 ¶  "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, 2  so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 3  "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.”

            In these verses Moses reminds this second generation of Israel that came out of the land of Egypt that they should obey the commands and the statutes that the Lord had given them through Moses in order to prosper in the land that the Lord had promised to give to them through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

            These laws were not only laws to live by but they revealed the character of God and God says latter through Jeremiah that He would write these laws upon their hearts, so that they would not have to look at the laws that were written on stone tablets.

            God will bless Israel because of the promises that he had given to Abraham when He made His covenant with him back in Genesis fifteen, not because these people were so good.  The same is true with believers today, God blesses us because of who we are in Christ (Ephesians 1:3-14), and because of the New Covenant which was paid for by the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.  (“Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,”)  Hebrews 13:20.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  It is a good reminder to me that the blessings that God has given to me are because of what Christ did for me and also that I am blessed by God because I am in Christ.  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Be thankful for the fact that I am blessed by God with every spiritual blessings in heavenly places because I am in Christ.
2. Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
3. Continue to learn contentment.

 

Memory verses for the week:                                  Ephesians 1:1-4

 

1.       Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,  To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus:

2.       Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3.       Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

4.       just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.  In love

 

3/28/2009 8:02 AM