8/18/2009 8:57 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The walk of faith
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Joshua 3:14-17
Message of the verses: “14 ¶
So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the
priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and when those who carried the ark came into
the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the
edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of
harvest), 16 the waters which were
flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at
Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down
toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the
people crossed opposite Jericho.
17 And the priests who carried the ark
of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel
crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”
This
morning in my NT reading I was reading Matthew chapters 13 & 14, and in
chapter fourteen I read about Jesus walking on water and this story talks about
Peter asking Jesus to allow him to come to Jesus by walking on the water. Peter was the only one of Jesus’ disciples
who had the faith to get his feet wet by walking on the water and he did walk
on the water until he looked at the size of the waves and the storm that was
surrounding him as he took his eyes off of Jesus and began to sink. Peter began to pray to Jesus and he saved him
from going under and was later chastised by the Lord for his lack of faith.
In
today’s Scripture reading for my SD the priests who were carrying the Ark of
the Covenant had to get their feet wet also by stepping into raging waters of
the Jordan Rive at flood stage. The
Jordan River usually runs about 100 feet across, however at flood stage it can
be a mile wide and that is what it was at when the priests had to jump into it
carrying the Ark. This also took faith to do, faith in the Lord
who had told Joshua what He wanted the priest to do, and they stepped in by
faith, faith in the Word of God, and in the God of the Word.
Warren
Wiersbe writes, “The crossing of the Red Sea pictures the believer being
delivered from the bondage of sin, and the crossing of the Jordan
River pictures the believer claiming the inheritance in Jesus
Christ. Joshua is a type of Jesus Christ
our Conqueror who leads us from day to day into the inheritance He has planned
for us (1 Cor. 2:9-10).” “9 However, as
it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"— 10 but God has revealed it
to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of
God.” (NIV)
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As I think of the spiritual inheritance that
I have in Jesus Christ I think of Ephesians and the first three chapters of
this wonder letter that Paul penned. In
order to claim this inheritance I first of all have to know what the
inheritance is and then I have to accept it by faith and act upon it just as
the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant into the flood ravaged Jordan
River did in order to claim their inheritance.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service today.
- Continue to learn contentment.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Trust the Holy Spirit to search my heart of unconfessed sin in order for me to confess them to the Lord.
- Put on the spiritual armor in order to walk in victory today: The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and take up the sword of the Spirit.
8/18/2009 9:46 AM
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