9/13/2010 12:15:18 PM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: A public offense
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Samuel 10:1-5
Message
of the verses: “1 ¶ Now it happened
afterwards that the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son became king
in his place. 2 Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of
Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent some of
his servants to console him concerning his father. But when David’s servants
came to the land of the Ammonites, 3 the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun
their lord, "Do you think that David is honoring your father because he
has sent consolers to you? Has David not sent his servants to you in order to
search the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?" 4 So Hanun took David’s
servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the
middle as far as their hips, and sent them away. 5 When they told it to David,
he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said,
"Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.’”
There are times when situations come
about in my life that are very difficult for me to handle and then when I open
the Word of God I get reassurance that I have done the right thing and this
passage is one of them.
I have heard a statement on a number
of occasions that that “why is the youth wasted on the young?” That is the point of this story in that once
an older ruler dies and his younger son takes over he at times if he is not to
smart will put younger people around him as his advisers and they will give him
the wrong information and trouble will soon follow. Youth is most of the time wasted on the young.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: The best
thing that I can do about what happened to us yesterday with our family is to
pray that the Lord will open their eyes, not because I am right about GBC going
in the wrong direction, but so that it would be good for our family, and it
would bring glory and honor to the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1.
Pray.
2.
Trust the Lord to give us wisdom and guide
us as to whether or not to take this job offer in Hawaii.
9/13/2010
12:37:42 PM
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