Sunday, June 30, 2013

Act Two: Divine Revelation (Judges 4:4-7)



12/22/2009 7:36 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                              Focus:  Act Two:  Divine revelation

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Judges 4:4-7

            Message of the verses:  “4 ¶  Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. 5  She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6  Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, "Behold, the LORD, the God of Israel, has commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun. 7  ‘I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his many troops to the river Kishon, and I will give him into your hand.’”
            Israel was a male dominated society and so it may seem odd for the Lord to choose Deborah to judge and lead Israel.  However Deborah looked at herself as a mother to the people of Israel:  “I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.”  This is from Judges 5:7, a portion of that verse.  Perhaps God’s desire was to humble Israel at this time or perhaps there were not men strong enough to lead Israel at this time, at any rate Deborah was the one whom God chose to lead Israel at this point in their history.
            God had a plan that He revealed to Israel through Deborah and that plan involved a man named Barak who was to lead the army of Israel into battle against Sisera who was the commander of Jabin’s army.  God’s plans are always perfect and so if Barak will follow this plan then Israel’s enemy will be defeated and they will not be oppressed by Jabin any longer.  The question is will Barak be willing to follow this perfect plan of God.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  One of the things that I have learned from this section is that I must have courage to do the correct thing, the things that I believe that God wants me to do, and one of those things is to witness to the lost, and perhaps another thing it to be involved in the solutions of the problems that are going on at GBC.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

  1. Put on the full armor of God:  The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
  2. Trust the Lord to guide my path today.

12/22/2009 8:16 AM  

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