SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
10/19/2005
My Worship Time Focus: Lamenting over Babylon
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation 18:9-10
Message of the verse: “9 And the rulers of the world who took part
in her immoral acts and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see
the smoke rising from her charred remains.
10 They will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They
will cry out, "How terrible, how terrible for Babylon, that great city! In one single
moment God’s judgment came on her.”
(NLT)
These
two verses and all the way to verse nineteen describe the morning over this
“great system” of Babylon. Rulers and merchants will morn alike as they
see the city destroyed in one single moment’s judgment from God. This was their whole life, all they had to
live for, and now it is all gone, gone from them forever. They once live for and lived in luxury and
now that that is gone they morn over its loss like a person morns over a loved
one who meant a lot to them who is now passed away. One day as Jesus and His disciples were going
through a grain field on the Sabbath day they began to rub the grain together
in order to get something to eat and the Pharisees accused them of break a law
because they were “working” on the Sabbath day.
Jesus told them that the Sabbath day was made for man not man for the
Sabbath day. I can see a similar thing
here in this section of Revelation 18 because in both cases men had their lives
out of balance. The Pharisees were in
fact worshiping the Law and therefore missed the most meaningful Person who
would come their way and the merchants and rulers described in this section of
chapter 18 were worshiping their lifestyle of money and luxury and missed out
on worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ who was trying to draw men of this time to
Him through these judgments, but they would not listen.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I do believe that God is using this section
of Revelation to have me look at my life as it was before all that has happened
to our investments, and even when I was working hard at Ford, and is comparing
it to now when we are struggling to keep our heads above water because of what
we owe and the little amount of income we have coming in at this time. I probably would not want to admit it but
there were many times when my attitude about “things” was not correct and it
was all out of balance with what is really important. The true fact is that God owns everything and
this is proved every second of every day as people die and leave it all so I
believe that God is changing my attitude toward these “things” and telling me
that He is most important in my life and He will never leave me nor forsake me
and therefore I should trust in Him wholly and not in the provisions that He is
entrusting me with.
The Word of God has been very
convicting to my heart as I read it this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today: To
trust the Lord for the outcome of these trials that He is sending me through,
to trust Him to teach me the important things that He would have me to learn
that will have eternal values, bring honor and glory to Him, and also be best
for me.
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