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:
- 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.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
12/22/2009 8:16 AM
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