6/2/2009 10:45 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The murder and the thief
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy 19:11-14
Message of the verses: “11
"But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for
him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to
one of these cities, 12 then the elders
of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of
the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13
"You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the
innocent from Israel
14 ¶
"You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the
ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that
the LORD your God gives you to possess.”
I
will do two sections in Warren Wiersbe’s book this morning as I did not do any
yesterday. The first speaks of the
murder and the second the thief.
The
Murderer: In his commentary on this
section Warren Wiersbe points out all of the crimes that were punishable by
death in the nation of Israel and also points out that they were under a
theocracy and therefore their laws were God’s laws and they were not to be
broken. The following were punishable by
death: Idolatry and sorcery, blasphemy,
violating the Sabbath, willful and repeated disobedience to parents,
kidnapping, bestiality, homosexuality, adultery, and rape of and engaged
maiden. This is quite a list of crimes
of which murder is the only one that is punishable by death in our country, and
many times the murder gets off or just goes to prison. I am sure that this is one of the many
reasons that our country is in such a mess.
In
this section of Scripture it was clear that there was a difference on someone
who set out to kill someone than if a person did the act by accident, such as
splitting wood and the ax head comes off and kills another person. Both offenders were to travel to the city of
refuge and then it was up to those who knew the person who was killed, perhaps a
family member to go and to make sure that justice was done. The person who killed someone would be
brought back to his city and the trial would be conducted there to find out
whether or not he was innocent and if guilty he would be swiftly executed.
The
Thief: When the children of Israel Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: In his commentary on the “Thief” portion of
this SD, Warren Wiersbe pointed out that it was one of the Ten Commandments not
to steal, and that stealing came in different sizes and shapes. One could speak wrongly against another
person and steal his good name, one could go into a persons house and steal
from him, extortion is another way of stealing.
Making wrong laws to benefit the ones who make them can also be
stealing.
I
need to remember all of these kinds of stealing and not do them.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Don’t steal anything.
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path.
- Continue to learn contentment.
Memory verses for the week: Ephesians
3:14-16
14. For
this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15. from
whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name
16. that
He would grant you, according to riches of His glory, to be strengthened with
power through His Spirit in the inner man
6/2/2009 11:17 AM
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