The Discipline of God PT-1 (Deu. 9:7-21)

4/16/2009 9:54 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                              Focus:  The Discipline of God Part 1

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Deut. 9:7-21

 

            Message of the verses:  “7 ¶  "Remember, do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 8  "Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. 9  "When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10  "The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 11  "It came about at the end of forty days and nights that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12  "Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’ 13  "The LORD spoke further to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people. 14  ‘Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ 15  "So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16  "And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17  "I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes. 18  "I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. 19  "For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, but the LORD listened to me that time also. 20  "The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. 21  "I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.”

            I am splitting this section from Warren Wiersbe’s book because of the length of it and will deal with the discipline of the Lord against the children of Israel at Mt. Sinai first.  This was a sin of impatience and also unbelief.  The Lord had just given the commandments to the children of Israel and they told Him two times that they would obey the commandments, yet just as I believe that the Promised Land is a picture of the believer claiming his inheritance from the Lord and walking with the Lord so I think that Egypt is a picture of sin which God has delivered all of His children from, and so Egypt could be a picture of the flesh or old nature and this is what the children of Israel fell back into at Mt. Sinai.  The made the golden calf to worship instead of worshiping the Lord and Aaron was one of those who was involved in the making of this calf in order to make peace with this people.  Moses had to go up onto the mountain for another forty days in order to intercede for Aaron and the children of Israel and he also turned down a offer from God to make a nation out of him because Moses wanted to bring glory to the Lord because the Lord had made a promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would make a great nation our of them.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Warren Wiersbe writes in this section:  “The scenery in the drama of the life of faith may change, but the actors and the script are pretty much the same:  God blesses, we enjoy the blessings, then we rebel against His disciplines and miss the blessing He planned for us.”  God truly has a plan for my life and I do not want to miss that plan He has for me or the work that He has planned for me to do while here on this earth and yet at times I think that I may be missing some of the blessings because of fear.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Pray that my inter man may be strengthened by the Holy Spirit.
2. Pray that I may continue to learn contentment.
3. Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
4. Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.

 

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

 

4/16/2009 10:27 AM