4/22/2011 6:30:22 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The God who sees
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: 2Kings 6:8-14
Message of the verses: “ 8
¶ Now the king of Aram was warring
against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, "In such and
such a place shall be my camp." 9
The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, "Beware that
you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there."
10 The king of Israel sent to the place
about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded
himself there, more than once or twice. 11
Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he
called his servants and said to them, "Will you tell me which of us is for
the king of Israel?" 12 One of his
servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in
Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."
“13 ¶ So he said, "Go and
see where he is, that I may send and take him." And it was told him,
saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan." 14
He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by
night and surrounded the city.”
Today’s
SD begins the forth chapter in Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on 2Kings and he
entitles it “The Battle is the Lord’s.”
Today’s lesson comes from the first main point of this chapter.
The
text is referring to the Syrian’s and the king is Ben Hadad. The problem with him is that whenever he
decides to attack Israel the prophet Elisha tells the king of Israel what he is
about to do and therefore he believes that he has a spy in his midst, and the
reason that he thinks this way is because that he is an unbeliever who worships
idols and these idols cannot see so therefore he cannot understand the One True
God of Israel. Idols cannot see nor
hear, nor walk, nor talk like the God of Israel.
One
of his officers tells the king that Elisha tells the king of Israel what he
says while in his bedroom, and so the decision is to kill Elisha and so the
king of Syria sends an army to surround the city that Elisha is in. Now if Elisha knew what the king was going to
do before he did it he also knew that the king would send the soldiers to kill
him. Does this cause fear to come over
Elisha? The answer is no, for Elisha was
doing the will of the Lord and “When God’s servants are in His will and doing His
work, they are immortal until their work is done.” (Warren Wiersbe)
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Long before we came to Kauai we prayed that
if the Lord did not want us to come here we would be content staying in
Ohio. There were many delays and we
thought that maybe the Lord wanted us to stay home. I believe the delays were so that I could
witness to a couple of people and then the Lord would clear the way for us to
leave. Well we worked from Jan. to the
first week of April when the job stopped for a while and we are now wondering
if the Lord is going to send us home or if the job will start back up again and
we continue to stay here. I surely want
the same kind of contentment that Elisha has in this passage, trusting the Lord
in the circumstances that He has put me in, knowing that I am in His will for
my life at this time. I believe that
this time off is also from the Lord and that when His time is right we will go
back to work, so I am resting in the Lord, for He is in control of all of this.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Continue to learn contentment.
2.
Give myself to the Lord for worship and for service
this day.
3.
Trust the Lord to see all of us through the hike we
are planning to take today.
4.
Trust the Lord to give us good weather so we can
have a good hike and for Sandy to have a good time today.
5.
Remember that the battle still rages on and I am in
need of the spiritual armor so that I can stand. 4/22/2011 6:53:03 AM
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