Promise (Deut. 30:1-10)

7/9/2009 8:28 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                                        Focus:  Promise

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Deut. 30:1-10

 

            Message of the verses:  “1 ¶  "So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the LORD your God has banished you, 2  and you return to the LORD your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, 3  then the LORD your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4  "If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. 5  "The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6  "Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. 7  "The LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8  "And you shall again obey the LORD, and observe all His commandments which I command you today. 9  "Then the LORD your God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; 10  if you obey the LORD your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.”

            This begins the last section in Warren Wiersbe’s book “Be Equipped” and this is the first sub-section of this section entitled “The blessings restored.”  He says in the introduction to this section, “So often in Scripture, the thundering voice of judgment is followed by the loving voice of hope.”  After going over a quite lengthy section of judgment Moses now begins to look down the corridors of time and tell what will happen to the nation of Israel.  In the previous chapters he spoke of the nation of Israel disobeying their God and being dispersed two different times, and the last time they were dispersed around the whole world.  The movie “Fiddler on the Roof” describes this terrible situation of the nation of Israel while they are dispersed around the world.  I believe that this section is speaking of the last days and I also believe that I am living very close to the time when these verses will be fulfilled, for even though there are some out there in Christendom who think that because Israel crucified the Lord Jesus Christ that all of the promises given to Israel were given to the Church, I don’t believe that for a second.  Israel is now in the land and has ownership of portions of the Promised Land for the first time since 586 BC and there are some people of Israel who are coming to know their Messiah at this time.  There are now more Jews living in Israel than in any other part of the world combined for the first time in a very long time.  God has promised to Abraham and his decedents, the nation of Israel, that they would own a certain portion of land, “The Promised Land,” and they have never up until this time in history possessed all of that land, but will someday.

            In this section of Scripture Moses writes that there will come a day when the people of Israel will have their hearts changed to believe in their God and will be pleased to obey Him.  Paul writes in Romans that there will come a day when “all Israel will be saved,” and Ezekiel writes in the 37^th chapter of his book that the last thing that will come into the rebirth of the nation of Israel is having a new heart come into the people of Israel, and a new Spirit will come into these people.  The time is neigh for all of this to happen and I will close this section with what the prophet John writes at the end of the book of Revelations, “20 ¶  He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming quickly." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. 21  The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.”

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Since I believe with all of my heart that the time of the fulfillment of this prophecy is very near I need to be telling as many people as the Lord directs into my path the story of Jesus Christ dying for their sins and that He is coming soon in the clouds to take His bride home with Him and to ever be with Him to worship and serve Him for all eternity.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Be open to the spreading of the good news of the Gospel.
2. Be ready to tell others of the hope that lies within me.
3. Give myself to the Lord today for worship and service.
4. Put on the Spiritual Armor:  The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, take up the shield of faith, put on the helmet of salvation, take up the Sword of the Spirit.
5. Continue to learn contentment.
6.  Trust the Lord to guide my path.
7. Keep a short list with the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to search my heart.

 

Memory verses for the week:                                  Ephesians 3:17-20

 

17.  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

18.  may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

19.  and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

20.  Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

 

7/9/2009 9:35 AM