10/17/2010 9:34:24 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: Friends cared for David
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Samuel 17:24-29
Message of the verses: “24
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan, he and all
the men of Israel with him. 25 Absalom
set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose
name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash,
sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. 26 And
Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead. 27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi
the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel
from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, 28 brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley,
flour, parched grain, beans, lentils, parched seeds, 29 honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd,
for David and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, ‘The
people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.’”
It
is sad that in this upcoming war it would be between father and son, uncle
against nephew, cousin against cousin, and citizen against citizen, and this
was what happens in a civil war. Amasa
was Absalom’s commander of the army and he was David’s nephew and the cousin of
Joab.
It
is also interesting that David got supplies from those in Ammon and others of
his friends who knew that David would need supplies for those who were with
him.
David’s
troops would be vastly outnumbered but they had the Lord on their side and if
Absalom would have been thinking in a spiritual mode instead of a selfish mode
he would have realized that he would never win this war for the Lord had not
chosen him to take over the kingdom of Israel in place of his father David, but
the Lord had chosen Solomon and therefore that was what was going to happen no
matter how outnumbered Absalom’s troops were over David.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I know that the Lord has a plan for my life
just as He had a plan for the life of David and for the kingdom of Israel and
Judah. I also know that it is probably
true that the plan that He has for my life is not as significant as the plan
that He had for David’s life, that of being the line in which the Messiah would
be born into the world, however it does give me great comfort to know that the
Lord does have a plan for my life. Now
with that said I want to say that if part of the plan for my life is to send me
to Kauai and work there is nothing that will stop it just as there was nothing
that stopped and undermanned army led by Joab to lose to his cousin’s
army. Now on the other hand if it is not
the will of the Lord for us to go to Kauai then nothing can happen to change that
either.
My
Steps of Faith for Today:
1. I
trust the Lord to direct my path today as I seek to walk with Him and for the
cause of Christ.
2. Give
myself to the Lord for worship and service this day.
3. Trust
the Lord to (if is His will) to work on the heart of Andrew Lech in order for
him to send to us the money he owes us.
10/17/2010 10:04:29 AM
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