7/22/2010
7:29:40 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Mockery
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 1Samuel 26:13-16
Message
of the verses: “13 ¶ Then David crossed over to the other side and
stood on top of the mountain at a distance with a large area between them.
14 David called to the people and to
Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Will you not answer, Abner?" Then
Abner replied, "Who are you who calls to the king?" 15 So David said to Abner, "Are you not a
man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the
king? For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord. 16 "This thing that you have done is not
good. As the LORD lives, all of you must surely die, because you did not guard
your lord, the LORD’S anointed. And now, see where the king’s spear is and the
jug of water that was at his head.’”
Warren Wiersbe calls this
sub-section “mockery,” and that is a good name for this section of Scripture,
for David was surely mocking those who were to guard the king, especially
Abner. He goes on to tell Abner that he
should surely die, for he was sleeping on the job and not protecting the
king. He then asks Abner about the jug
of water and the king’s spear.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I have
been looking at how David treated Saul, the king of Israel, the Lord’s anointed
one to lead Israel with two people, our President, and our Pastor, and I have
been learning that I am to respect the office that these two hold because the
Lord has put them in charge for His own purposes, but the fact is that my
respect for these two men is not what is was for our former President or former
Pastor. One of the things that I have
learned and am still trying to obey what I have learned is to let the Lord take
care of these two men in the way that He will, and not to try and do anything
that would cause me to sin in doing something wrong concerning them. This is a hard lesson for me to practice and
I surely had trouble last evening in talking with a young man about things that
I should not have spoken to him about and this bothers me because I believe it
was sin and sin against the Lord and so I confessed my sin to the Lord, but still
feel badly about it.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
1John 1:9 is
my step of faith for today: “If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
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 instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God
(just as you 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 possess his won
vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in sexual passion, like the Gentiles
who do not know God. 7/22/2010
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