3/26/2009 9:14 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The Law of God Part 5
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy 5:19-21
Message of the verses: “19
‘You shall not steal. 20 ‘You
shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 21 ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,
and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant
or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your
neighbor.”
I
will be looking at the last three of the Ten Commandments in this SD, and I
might say that in my opinion the tenth commandment is the most difficult
commandment to keep especially if one has not learned contentment.
The
eight commandment simply says “you shall not steal,” but this means that we are
not to steal anything from anyone, things like stealing time at work, or even
taking pens or things like that, and we are not to steal a persons identity, to
slander against a person is doing that.
The
next commandment is all about lying, and this does not just mean in a court of
law, but lying is wrong. Lying can mean
that you deceive a person with the intent of not telling them the truth.
The
final commandment speaks of coveting something that another person has, and it
begins with a neighbor’s wife, in other words is a person lusts after another’s
wife like David did then one breaks this commandment. If a person lusts after a persons vineyard
like Ahab did then this is wrong. Now in
both of these cases this act of lusting or coveting after these things brought
about the breaking of other commandments including murder and that is what
happens when a person breaks one commandment it will probably lead to breaking
another commandment for as James puts it these commandments are like a chain.
Dr.
Wiersbe has some things to say in conclusion to his commentary that I wish to
quote, “The old nature knows no law, bu the new nature needs no law.
“Because
we’ve been born again into God’s family and have received God’s divine nature
within, we are enabled by the Spirit to obey God’s law and live godly lives.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I did not wish to take so long going over
these commandments especially since I went over each of them while studying the
book of Exodus, but you cannot study too much about such things and it was time
worth investing. It seems that the Lord
has been talking to me about the indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit, for
just as D. L. Moody was seeking this in his life, a life that I have been
reading about.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Learn to live a contented life.
- Trust the Holy Spirit to fill me as He desires to do so.
- Give my self to the Lord for worship and service.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
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
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
3/26/2009 10:24 AM
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