4/25/2011
7:14:48 AM
SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My Worship Time
Focus: The God who keeps His covenant
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2Kings
6:24-33
Message
of the verses: “24 ¶ Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad
king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 There was a great famine in Samaria; and
behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of
silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
26 As the king of Israel was passing by
on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O
king!" 27 He said, "If the
LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor,
or from the wine press?" 28 And the
king said to her, "What is the matter with you?" And she answered,
"This woman said to me, ’Give your son that we may eat him today, and we
will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 "So
we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ’Give your
son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son." 30 When the king heard the words of the woman,
he tore his clothes-now he was passing by on the wall-and the people looked,
and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body. 31 Then he said, "May God do so to me and
more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today."
32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house,
and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his
presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do
you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when
the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door shut against him. Is not
the sound of his master’s feet behind him?" 33 While he was still talking with them, behold,
the messenger came down to him and he said, "Behold, this evil is from the
LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?’”
After reading the text for today’s
SD I was unsure how Dr. Wiersbe got this title for this section, but after
reading his commentary I understand why he chose this title. The people of Israel were breaking the
covenant that the Lord had given them to keep.
The covenant had both blessing and curses in it and if the people refused
to follow what the Lord had given them to keep and receive the blessings from
the Lord then they would receive the curses from the Lord, and this is what was
happening to them. The eating of unclean
food, the eating of one’s child, the attacks from other nations who would
defeat them, this was all in the curses of the Law, and these people,
especially the king did not get what was going on because the king was blaming
Elisha for the trouble that they were in and so he vows to kill him. God tells Elisha all that he needs to know
and so he knew that the king would be sending the messenger to him to kill him
and would follow him to make sure that it would get done and so he had the
elders block the door even before they got there.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I realize
that the covenant that God gave to Israel with the blessings and the curses is
not what I live under today. Good things
can happen to “bad” people today, and bad things can happen to “good” people
today. With that said I want to live a
life that is pleasing to the Lord no matter what happens to me, and be able to
say with Paul that “I have learned to be content.”
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Continue to learn to be content
in my life.
2. Give myself to the Lord today for
worship and for service.
3. Trust the Lord with the outcome
of whether or not my van sells.
4. Pray that the Lord would give me
grace so that Sandy and I get along better.
4/25/2011
7:46:32 AM
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