7/26/2010
9:01:23 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: He reports of the raids
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 27:8-12
Message
of the verses: “8 ¶ Now David and his men went up and raided the
Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants
of the land from ancient times, as you come to Shur even as far as the land of
Egypt. 9 David attacked the land and did
not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took away the sheep, the cattle, the
donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.
10 Now Achish said, "Where have you
made a raid today?" And David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and
against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the
Kenites." 11 David did not leave a
man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, "Otherwise they will tell
about us, saying, ’So has David done and so has been his practice all the time
he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’" 12 So Achish believed David, saying, "He
has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will
become my servant forever.’”
This was the second scheme that
David was using, that of attacking the allies of Achish and then telling him he
was attacking towns in Judah. David
would wipe out all of the people in the towns so that word could not get back
to Achish, and at the same time David was making the people of Judah happy
because he was wiping out the peoples who the children of Israel were suppose
to wipe out whenever they first came into the Promised Land. If they would have followed the Lord and did
this then they children of Israel would not be in the shape that they were at
this time in their history. It was a
spiritual issue that caused this trouble as they had disobeyed the Lord.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: It seems
to me that David was doing a good thing, ridding the enemies of Judah, in a
wrong way, scheming against Achish. I still cannot see any time when David was
praying to the Lord about these things he was doing.
Proverbs 3:5-6 seems to be what
David needed at this time in his live, and something that I need in my life
each day in order to get direction from the Lord on what I am suppose to do
each day.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Be protected
in the battle today with the spiritual armor provided to me and described in
Eph. 6:10-18.
2.
Trust the Lord to guide my path as seen in Proverbs
3:5-6.
3.
Continue to seek to learn contentment as seen in
Phil. 4:11.
Memory verses for the week: 1Thes.
4:1-5
1 Finally then, brethren, we request and
exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instructions as to
how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you
excel still more. 2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority
of the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the
will of God, your sanctification, that is, that you abstain from sexual
immorality; 4 that each of you know how to processes his own vessel in
sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do
not know God;
7/26/2010 9:21:35 AM
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