8/21/2010
8:36:16 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time Focus:
Abner rejects David’s kingship
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
2Samual 2:8-11
Message
of the verses: “8 ¶ But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s
army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
9 He made him king over Gilead, over the
Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, even over all Israel.
10 Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty
years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years. The
house of Judah, however, followed David. 11
The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven
years and six months.”
This SD begins a new chapter in
Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on 2Samual and also 1Chronicles, although there
have not been any verses from 1Chronicles used to this point in his book. He entitles this chapter “David Watches and
Waits,” and the first main point is Abner the kingmaker, of which today’s SD is
the first sub-point under this first main point.
If I understand this section
correctly it seems like an overview of what is going to take place for in these
verses there is a great period of time seen, but later on there is more
explanation of this period of time, kind of like filling in the blanks of these
verses.
Abner son of Ner was not only the
commander of Saul’s army, but he was the cousin of Saul, and he was actually
the one who was in charge of most of Israel at this time using a puppet king,
Ish-bosheth, Saul’s remaining son, as king.
One can see that it was Abner who was the one in charge, and I am sure
that Abner knew that the Lord had chosen David to be king in Israel, and yet he
was going against the will of the Lord in doing what he was doing in making
Saul’s son king. David was king in Judah
for seven and a half years and Saul’s son became king of Israel about five
years into the time that David was king of Judah. Abner was manipulating the people of Israel
for this time period to make Ish-bosheth their king. It is possible that Saul had left this son
home because he knew he was going to die and wanted his dynasty to continue.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I don’t
know if what I am about to write is coming from the Lord, but it does make
sense to me and I believe that it is of the Lord. This has to do with people leaving our church
and not removing their memberships from the church roles in order to come back
and vote against our pastor in the event there would be such a vote. In the lesson today I see Abner as going
against the will of the Lord and trying to manipulate what was going on in
Israel, and this is what I see going on at GBC with some of the people who are
leaving and not removing their membership from the membership roles.
I believe in my heart that God’s
heart is breaking over what He sees going on at GBC, and my heart is breaking
too, but God is in control and will work out what is best. Knowing this I believe that the best thing
for us to do is to leave GBC and go to a church that is deeper in its teaching
and will better glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in the way that the church
conducts its worship and the running of the business of the church.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. I am thankful to the Lord for seeing me
through the golf game yesterday and the going out to eat afterwards with family
in Lorain.
2. Continue to trust the Lord in
guiding us as to where we are to worship.
8/21/2010
9:25:51 AM
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