3/20/2009 9:41 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The love of God
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy 4:32-43
Message of the verses: “32 "Indeed, ask now concerning the former
days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth,
and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done
like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? 33 "Has any people heard the voice of God
speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?
34 "Or has a god tried to go to
take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and
wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great
terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 "To you it was shown that you might know
that the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him. 36 "Out of the heavens He let you hear His
voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard
His words from the midst of the fire. 37
"Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their
descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt
41 ¶ Then Moses set apart three cities across the
Jordan to the east, 42 that a manslayer
might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity
toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43 Bezer in the wilderness on the
plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in
Bashan for the Manassites.”
Moses again
goes back into the history of man and then to when God had called Abraham in
order to make a great nation out of him, a nation that would receive His Word,
would also receive His Love, and would also be the nation in which God would
send the Messiah into the world in order to save His people from their
sin. Moses asks the children of Israel
if they had ever heard of God speaking to them from a fire, and give them His
Law, and if they ever heard of a god who lived with a nation and destroyed
other nations in order for His nation to leave Egypt and to then destroy other
nations in order to live in their land.
This had never happened and what God wanted in return was for this
nation to worship Him and to obey them out love from their hearts. “God doesn’t want His children obeying Him
just to get blessings or to avoid chastening, but because they love Him from
the heart.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The same statement is true for me today as it
was for the children of Israel
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Love God because He first loved me, and love Him from my heart.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Trust the Lord to give me the grace today in order to live my life in obedience to Him and to His Word.
- Continue to learn contentment.
Memory verses for the week: Ephesians
1:1-2
- Paul,
an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at
- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3/20/2009 10:33 AM
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