4/13/2011 7:37:45 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Grace removes the curse
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Kings 4:38-41
Message of the verses: “38 ¶
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the
sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put
on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets." 39 Then one went out into the field to gather
herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds,
and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they
were. 40 So they poured it out for the
men to eat. And as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said,
"O man of God, there is death in the pot." And they were unable to
eat. 41 But he said, "Now bring
meal." He threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people
that they may eat." Then there was no harm in the pot.”
Dr.
Wiersbe points out in this section of his commentary that there was no evidence
of having anything poison growing in the Garden of Eden, but it came with the
thorns and the thistles after Adam sinned.
This was innocent of the man who found these plants and put them into
the stew, for it was a time of famine and these men were just trying to find
something to eat. It was the grace of
God to remove the poison when Elisha added some flower to the stew and caused
the poison to disappear.
Dr.
Wiersbe writes the following at the end of his commentary on this section: “Today, there is a great deal of ‘death in
the pot,’ for we live under the curse of the law of sin and death, and sin and
death are reigning In the world (Rom. 5:14-21).
But when Jesus died on the cross, He bore the curse of the law for us
(Gal. 3:13), and for those who have trusted Christ, grace is reigning (Rom.
5:21) and they are ‘reigning in life’ (Rom. 5:17). The sting of death has been removed (1Cor.
15:50-57).”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am so very thankful that Jesus Christ took
the poison out of the pot for me and now I am His child forever more and that
the sting of death has been removed for me as those wonderful verses in
1Corinthians 15 prove this to me: “50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the
imperishable.
“ 51 ¶
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be
changed, 52 in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the
dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this perishable will have put on the
imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come
about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.
55 "O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY?
O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?" 56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Give myself to the Lord for worship and
for service.
2.
Remember the battle is raging and I am in need of
the spiritual armor to be put on.
3.
Continue to learn contentment.
4.
Remember
the last two verses in Psalm 139:
“23 Search me, O God, and know my
heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting.”
4/13/2011 7:56:33 AM
Very thankful for the explaination. I thank GOD almigthty for this.
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