10/6/2010 6:56:19 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: David mobilizes the forces, David weeps
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Samuel 15:17-23
Message of the verses: 17 The
king went out and all the people with him, and they stopped at the last house.
18 Now all his servants passed on beside
him, all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred
men who had come with him from Gath, passed on before the king. 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite,
"Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you
are a foreigner and also an exile; return to your own place. 20 "You came only yesterday, and shall I
today make you wander with us, while I go where I will? Return and take back
your brothers; mercy and truth be with you." 21 But Ittai answered the king and said,
"As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever my lord
the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will
be." 22 Therefore David said to
Ittai, "Go and pass over." So Ittai the Gittite passed over with all
his men and all the little ones who were with him. 23 While all the country was weeping with a loud
voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron,
and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.”
David
and a group of people were now leaving the city of Jerusalem in the opposite
way of Hebron and when they got to the last house in the suburbs of Jerusalem
he stopped to rest and to look at those who were with him. There is a man named Ittai who was a
Philistine serving David and he had six-hundred men with him who came from Gath
when David had lived there. Ittai give a
great testimony here as a Gentile one that is similar to Ruth’s testimony and
also a Roman centurion gave concerning the Lord Jesus Christ found in Matthew
8:5-13.
This
section is on verse twenty-three where David weeps and also those who are with
him are weeping. They were probably
weeping for different reasons as David was weeping over his son Absalom and
wondering how this will turn out. Nathan
told David that the sword would not depart from his family and already there
were two of four people in David’s family who had died and perhaps David was
thinking that Absalom would be the third.
Dr. Wiersbe points out that during the time
when Jesus crossed the Kidron on His way to the Mount of Olives that Judas was
betraying Him, and in this seen as David was crossing the Kidron his son
Absalom was betraying David.
After
this episode of David’s life is over he will have lost three sons, two of them
were crown prince’s and one was an innocent baby, and then the next would be
another son who was trying to take over the kingdom and would die trying as it
was not in the plan of the Lord.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Just like David, Sandy and I are going
through our own crisis and although it is now as difficult as the crisis David
went through it is none the less a crisis.
David’s heart was breaking over the crisis that he was going through and
his focus remained on the Lord as while this was going on he wrote some four or
five Psalms that are called the exile Psalms.
My prayer is that Sandy and I will remain true to the Lord in our crisis
and remain trusting the Lord even in these difficult times.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Trust
the Lord to give Sandy and I the peace that passes understanding as we prepare
to leave this afternoon on our first leg of a journey that will end up in the
state of Hawaii working on a job there and also and foremost serving the Lord
as we will make some money in order to help out some of the missionaries who
will be hurting because of the crisis at GBC.
This is our desire and hopefully the Lord will allow us to fulfill that
desire and lead us to give to the ones He will lay upon our heart.
2. Pray
that the Lord will guide our steps today.
3. Pray
that we will have safety in our travels.
10/6/2010 7:30:24 AM
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