6/7/2009 8:03 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Taking a city
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deut. 20:10-18
Message of the verses: “10 ¶
"When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it
terms of peace. 11 "If it agrees to
make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it
shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. 12 "However, if it does not make peace with
you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 "When the LORD your God gives it into
your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword.
14 "Only the women and the children
and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as
booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD
your God has given you. 15 "Thus
you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the
cities of these nations nearby. 16
"Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is
giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.
17 "But you shall utterly destroy
them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite
and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you, 18 so that they may not teach you to do
according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods,
so that you would sin against the LORD your God.”
Moses now
switches his teaching to cities that are not in the land
of Canaan , but are far from Canaan . This
teaching is different in that Israel was to offer peace to these cities however
if they do not accept the offer of peace then Israel was to besiege the city
and then all of the men from that city would be killed, leaving the women and
children alive along with the animals.
If they accept the peace terms then these people would be bondslaves to
the nation of Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It is important for me to realize that I too
am in a battle against the world, the flesh, and the Devil and that they do not
fight fair and seek to destroy me and also my testimony. Paul says the we fight not against flesh and
blood, but latter on in that passage reminds his readers that they need to put
on the full armor of God in order to stand firm against these enemies. I need to do this on a regular basis.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Put on the full armor of God.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Keep a short list with the Lord.
Memory verses for the week: Ephesians
3:14-17
14. For
this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15. from
whom every family on earth and in heaven derives its name,
16. that
He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened
with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
17. so
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you being rooted
and grounded in love,
6/7/2009 8:20 AM
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