5/8/2009 9:13 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The poor debtor
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deut. 15:1-11
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of
debts. 2 "This is the manner of
remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he
shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’S
remission has been proclaimed. 3
"From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever
of yours is with your brother. 4
"However, there will be no poor among you, since the LORD will
surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an
inheritance to possess, 5 if only you
listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all
this commandment which I am commanding you today. 6 "For the LORD your God will bless you as
He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow;
and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 7 "If there is a poor man with you, one of
your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the LORD your God is
giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor
brother; 8 but you shall freely open
your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in
whatever he lacks. 9 "Beware that
there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of
remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you
give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin
in you. 10 "You shall generously
give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because
for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all
your undertakings. 11 "For the poor
will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall
freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’”
First I
want to write about what is seemingly a difference between verse four and
eleven in that one says that there will not be any poor and the other that the
poor will always be with them. The point
is that if the children of Israel
This
section is about the sabbatical year which happens every seven years in that
all the debts should be canceled and the land should lie dormant and the
children of Israel Babylon attack Judah
There were
two way in which this law could be broken, the law of having the debts
canceled, and that is the poor could take advantage of it and not pay back
those who loaned the money to them or the rich would not give the poor what
they needed because they were afraid that they would not get it back. Both were wrong.
Spiritual meaning for my life: Money and wealth are mentioned a lot in the
Scriptures and contentment is also mentioned in the Scriptures and the two must
go together. I cannot take anything with
me to heaven, but I can sent some ahead in the gifts, tithes, and offerings
that I give to the Lord while on this earth, and for me to do this in a
cheerful way I must learn contentment, something that the Lord has been working
on my heart about for the last several years.
I must also remember that all that I have is from the Lord and I am to
remember this, not thinking that I had anything to do with it. This is important to remember.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Be continually filled with the Spirit of God.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path.
- Trust the Lord to keep me from sin, the sin that hurts me so bad.
- Trust the Lord to remind me that His Truth will always defeat the world, the flesh and the devil.
Memory verses for today: 1John
2:15-16
15 Do not love the
world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in
the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful
pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
5/8/2009 9:41 AM
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