SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
12/05/2005
My Worship Time Focus: God’s Word is Faithful & True
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Revelation 22:6-7
Message of the verse: “6
And he said to me, ‘These words are faithful and true’; and the Lord,
the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His
bond-servants the things which must soon take place. 7 ‘And
behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy
of this book.’” (NASB 95) “6
The Angel said to me, ‘These are dependable and accurate words, every
one. The God and Master of the spirits of the prophets sent his Angel to show
his servants what must take place, and soon.
7 And tell them, ‘Yes, I’m on my
way!’ Blessed be the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this
book.’” (Message)
The angel
who was speaking to John tells him that all of these words are faithful and
true. I believe that the angel is
talking about this entire letter that John was writing down as he was
instructed to do so. There are some who
do not believe what is said in this letter, or they try to spiritualize it and
thus take away the meaning that it was intended to have. Just because one cannot understand it does
not mean that they have the right to disregard it of make it into something
that it is not. There is no one on this
earth who has ever understood all that is in the Bible, but that does not mean
that we should not study it, for the writers of the Bible did not always
understand what they were writing, but they wrote it down because they were
told to do it by God or one of His angels.
Daniel is a good example of this because he actually writes about this,
saying that he did not understand what he had seen or was told to write down,
but one of the angels told him not to worry about it for there would be a day
when all that he wrote would come to pass and would be understood.
John uses
the word “soon” in verse six and “quickly” in verse seven and if one looks at
that word in the way that it is used in the English language they might think
that it has been over 1900 years since John penned this letter and that surely
is not quickly or soon, however I have read that these words mean that once the
prophecies began to take place the sequence would happen rapidly.
The angel
also said in verse seven that those who would heed the words of this prophecy
would be blessed. The readers of this
book were also told in the beginning of it that those who read this would
receive a special blessing. This is more
evidence that this book should be read and studied and followed and not just
put away and not looked at.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The writer to the Hebrews sums up pretty well
the spiritual meaning for my life today from the verses in Revelation that I
have been studying this morning when he writes, “For the word of God is living
and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the
division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the
thoughts and intentions of the heart.” I
am to keep on reading and studying and memorizing and meditating on God’s Word.
The Word of God has been refreshing to me as I read and
studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Continue to read and study
the Word of God, even though at times I am not exactly sure all of the time the
exact meaning of it, trusting that the Holy Spirit will teach me the things
that He wants me to know and learn at the right time.
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