SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
10/17/2005
My Worship Time Focus: Babylon
pays for her sins
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Revelation 18:6-8
Message of the verse: “6 Do
to her as she has done to your people. Give her a double penalty for all her
evil deeds. She brewed a cup of terror for others, so give her twice as much as
she gave out. 7 She has lived in luxury and pleasure, so
match it now with torments and sorrows. She boasts, ‘I am queen on my throne. I
am no helpless widow. I will not experience sorrow.’ 8
Therefore, the sorrows of death and mourning and famine will overtake
her in a single day. She will be utterly consumed by fire, for the Lord God who
judges her is mighty.”’
God is now
going to judge Babylon
for her sins and these verses describe some of the sin that she did. Before God judges Babylon He calls His people
out of her.
God hates
pride, for pride was probably the first sin that was ever committed in that
Lucifer, who is now called Satan said five “I wills” which were all prideful
statements against God. Babylon has also seduced the nations that
were around her to be just like her. A
third sin is her love for luxury and pleasure, for she worshiped these
pleasurable things and all the while there were very poor people around her
that she would not help. In verse eight
God promises to judge Babylon
in a single day.
One of
God’s attributes is that of judgment, for God will always judge in
righteousness, and He never does things to get even, but has great patience in
His judgment, waiting for the people to repent of their sins, but in this case
they would not even though they had seen all of the judgments that God has sent
upon the whole world.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: One of the things that speaks to me from
these verses is that I must never let the things that God has given me to own
me, and I am never to brag about the blessings that God has given me as if I
had something to do with them. I have
done this in the past with the our investment and now I do not have it at this
time, but hopefully because of this trial God has taught me this lesson and
will someday soon trust me with these funds again knowing that they have always
been a gift from Him and He can remove them from me at any time for in reality
all that I have is His especially me.
The Word of God has brought conviction to my heart as I
studied His Word this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Continue to trust the Lord in
all of these trials that we our going through, that He will see us through to
the other side of them and we will both be different when we arrive there.
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