5/20/2011 10:50:56 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Idolatry
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference:
2Chron.
25:14-16
Message of the verses: “14 ¶
Now after Amaziah came from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought the
gods of the sons of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down before them and
burned incense to them. 15 Then the
anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to
him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people who have not delivered
their own people from your hand?" 16
As he was talking with him, the king said to him, "Have we
appointed you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" Then
the prophet stopped and said, "I know that God has planned to destroy you,
because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.’”
I
have two quotes from Dr. Warren Wiersbe to make before making my observations
on this section of Scripture: “Let us be
as watchful after the victory as before the battle” (This is actually a quote from an old
Scottish minister Andrew Bonar). “The
greatest judgment God can send to people is to let them have their own way.” I have read both of these quotes in different
commentaries that Warren Wiersbe has written and because they are so helpful to
me I wanted to include them in this SD.
Back
in the book of 1Samuel there was something similar that happened as happened in
this section of Scripture and I suppose that it happened all over the known
world in OT times, and that is that when a country defeated another country
they would take the gods of that country and put them on display in their
country and mostly in their temple to the god that they worshipped. This was done to show that their god was
better than the country’s god that they defeated. This was not exactly the case here as Amaziah
decided to worship the god or gods that he had just defeated, and then to top
it off he gave a lot of trouble to the prophet that came to tell him how wrong
he was in doing this. All of the Jews
who look at the OT knew that God was the only God and all other gods were false
and that it was punishable by death to worship these other so called gods.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Idolatry is putting anything above the
worship of God, so if I would put making money ahead of God then that is
idolatry. Knowing this I cannot be too
hard on Amaziah, even though this was a really dumb thing to do. I have trouble in areas of my life that need
to be addressed and that takes up a lot of my time so I don’t have time to deal
with other peoples sins, however I am to learn from these things that happened
in the OT so that I don’t repeat them.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Continue to learn contentment.
2.
Remember that there is a battle that I am engaged in
and I need the spiritual armor in place.
3.
Give myself to the Lord this day for worship and for
service.
4.
I
will set no worthless thing before my eyes.
5/20/2011 11:17:55 AM
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