2/8/2011 5:24:58 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: God blessed his family
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Chron. 11:18-23
Message of the verses: “18
Then Rehoboam took as a wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son
of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, 19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and
Zaham. 20 After her he took Maacah the
daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.
21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of
Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen
wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of
Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.
23 He acted wisely and distributed some
of his sons through all the territories of Judah and Benjamin to all the fortified
cities, and he gave them food in abundance. And he sought many wives for them.”
In
this section the wisdom of Rehoboam can be seen in the wives that he took and
in the way that he treated his sons. The
wives that he took were actually grand-daughters and great grand-daughters of
King David which is not actually seen in this section of Scripture but brought
up by Dr. Wiersbe in his commentary.
The
wisdom of having his sons get out of the palace and begin to work is seen in
this section, and this gave Rehoboam a chance to see his son’s character and
how they worked and then enabled him to choose who would secede him.
Rehoboam
like his father and grand-father broke the law of having more than one wife.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: It is
good to see the practical wisdom that Rehoboam demonstrated in the raising of
his family. The Bible does not hide the
sins of those in the OT, for they are there for believers to learn by, and so
it is with my life. I want to
demonstrate wisdom in the way I conduct myself and remember that it is
important to seek the Lord each day for wisdom and also in order to confess my
sins to Him so that I may have fellowship with Him.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Seek the Lord to direct my path today.
2.
Seek the Lord to continue to teach me contentment.
3.
Seek the Lord to search my heart for unconfessed
sin, and to remember that there are sins there to confess for I am indeed a
sinner saved by the grace of God.
2/8/2011 5:51:28 AM
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