10/15/2009 9:28 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The Prayer
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Joshua 10:12-15
Message of the verses: “12
Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the
Amorites before the sons of Israel,
and he said in the sight of Israel,
"O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon."
13 So the sun stood still, and the moon
stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. Is it not
written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and
did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 14 There was no day like that before it or after
it, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
“15 ¶
Then Joshua and all Israel
with him returned to the camp to Gilgal.”
This
section speaks of the day the earth and the moon and the sun stood still for an
extra twenty-four hours. It takes faith
to believe that this happened the way it is described in the book of Joshua,
and faith come by hearing, and hearing from the Word of God. Why is it so hard to believe that the God of
the Bible who created the heavens and the earth could not stop the earth for a
day in order to answer the prayer of a godly man who needed more daylight to
finish a job that the Lord had given him to do for His honor and glory. Christians look into the first chapter of
Genesis and believe that it was the Lord who created all that is described
there and this was a great miracle, and yet as the Bible records further
miracles like Abraham and Sara having the miracle baby when they were past the
time of being able to have children, and all of the miracles that happened in
order to remove Israel from Egypt including the crossing of the Red Sea, and
all of the other miracles recorded in both the OT and NT and some of these
Christians have to find a way to figure out how God did this. This is a total lack of faith in their part
and therefore dilutes the God of the Bible and therefore dishonors Him.
This
was the last and greatest miracle that is found in the book of Joshua.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The greatest miracle that has ever happened
to me is when the Holy Spirit called me to be a believer in the Lord Jesus
Christ, who paid for my sin on the cross almost 2000 years ago, who became sin
for me so that I could receive His righteousness, who suffered on the cross
while His Father took out His wrath on Him in order to pay for the sin that I
was born with and the sin that I sin each and every day, and God was satisfied
with His death for my sins and proved it by raising Him from the dead and now
He sets at His Father’s right hand and intercedes for me. This miracle that happened to me is similar
to the raising of Lazarus from the dead for I once was dead but now I am alive
in Christ and I can’t explain this wonderful miracle, but I believe it and want
to live for my Lord for the rest of my life and serve Him and bring honor and
glory to Him forever.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- I give myself to the Lord from this day forth, all that I have, all that I own, that I may bring honor and glory to the One who called me, a spiritually dead sinner to be a child of the King.
- I want to continue to learn contentment.
- I put on the spiritual armor today to be protected in the battle today, the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, I take up the shield of faith, and put on the helmet of salvation, and take up the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
- I want to keep my mind on the things above where Christ is seated and not on the things below.
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