4/5/2011 5:26:59 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: God honors faith Pt. 2
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Kings 2:19-22
Message of the verses: “19 ¶
Then the men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold now, the situation
of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land is
unfruitful." 20 He said,
"Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.
21 He went out to the spring of water
and threw salt in it and said, "Thus says the LORD, ’I have purified these
waters; there shall not be from there death or unfruitfulness any
longer.’" 22 So the waters have
been purified to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.”
The
second sub-section is entitled “Healing bad waters,” and is the subject of
today’s SD.
Dr.
Wiersbe points out the importance of salt to the Jewish people in his
commentary on this section of Scripture.
"All the offerings of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel
offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with
you, as a perpetual allotment. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the
LORD to you and your descendants with you." This Scripture from Numbers 18:19 shows that
the OT Jews thought of salt in terms of God’s covenant. Also they thought of it as personal purity as
seen in Lev.2:13, “’Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season
with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking
from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.”
In
this miracle of faith the salt did not purify these waters but the Lord did it
in response to the faith of Elisha.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Faith is an extremely important aspect of the
Christian faith, and also of my walk with the Lord. However I cannot get the horse before the
cart, for it is the Lord who has given me faith to believe in Him, and not the
other way around. A verse, I believe in
Colossians speaks of walking with the Lord in the same way that one comes to
Him and that is by grace through faith.
I must live the Christian faith by grace through faith the same way I
came into it, but must remember that it is the Lord who gives me both to
exercise before Him.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Give myself
to the Lord for worship and for service this day.
2.
Trust the Lord to work out the details of the great
problems with the job I am working on.
3.
Give me wisdom to be a help for this job.
4.
Remember the Spiritual battle that I am in, and that
it starts in the mind, and that I need the Spiritual Armor on at all times.
5.
Continue to learn contentment.
4/5/2011 5:46:53 AM
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