9/23/2010 9:50:17 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: The pardon
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Sam. 12:13-14
Message of the verses: “13
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD."
And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die. 14 "However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of
the LORD to
blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die.’”
David
wrote two Psalms to show his repentance from these sins, and these Psalms, 32 &
51 give comfort to all who have sinned against the Lord and have truly
confessed and repented from their sin.
Verse fourteen begins with the word “however” and this is the part that
Dr. Wiersbe points out that this has to do with the government of God, and so
God would allow David to go through the consequences of his sin, and the first
part of that would be the death of Bathsheba’s son. As mentioned in an earlier SD David would
also lose three more sons and he also had a beautiful daughter rapped by her
half brother and this began the great trouble in David’s family that almost
cost him his throne.
Spiritual meaning for my life this morning: I have been writing about the stages of how
temptation and sin work in a person’s life and will repeat some of these things
in this section of this SD today.
Temptation is not sin for Hebrews tells me that the Lord Jesus was
tempted : “Heb 2:18 For since He Himself was tempted in that
which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are
tempted. Heb 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as
we are, yet without sin.” These two
verses prove that temptation is not sin.
When I am tempted I can get rid of the temptation and one of the ways to
do this is to quote 1Cor. 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as
is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.”
Next
when I give in to temptation in my mind that will be the next easiest way to not
sin in my body. Jesus spoke of this in
His sermon on the mount: “Mt 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, ’YOU
SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’; Mt 5:28 but
I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already
committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Sinning in my heart can lead to sinning in my body and it does not only
mean sexual sins like is spoken of above, anger and murder begin in the heart
along with other sins and in the heart is the second best place to get rid of
these sins before one commits them in their bodies.
David
did not follow any of these steps and thus broke four of the Ten
Commandments. God, in His grace, forgave
David and because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross I will be forgiven for
all my sins, but if I continue to sin then I will not be in wonderful
fellowship with the Lord and will not be conformed in the image of Jesus
Christ, something I have a great desire to do
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Remember
the truth of 1Cor. 10:13.
2. Give
myself to the Lord for worship and service this day.
3. Trust
the Lord to guide & direct my path today.
9/23/2010 10:29:19 AM
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