SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date: 02-15-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Christ’s obedience
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 5:8
1. Message
of the verse: “Although He was a Son, He
learned obedience from the things which He suffered.” (NASB)
“So even though Jesus was God’s Son, He learned obedience from the
things He suffered.” (NLT)
It was the
desire of Jesus Christ, while He was on this earth, to obey His Father and to
accomplish His will. By doing this He
had put Himself in subjection to His Father and thus part of Him doing His
Fathers will was to learn obedience to Him.
Luke 2:52 says, “And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in
favor with God and men.” Jesus was the
perfect man, being God in human flesh, however He still had to learn things
that all humans learn, things like obeying His earthly parents, learning the
trade of being a carpenter. “Because
Jesus obeyed perfectly, even under great trial, He can help us obey, no matter
how difficult obedience seems to be.”
(Life Application Bible note on this verse)
I want to
relate something that seems to me goes along with this verse. God created man, and then man sinned against
God which brings evil into the world.
God says in Romans 8:28 that He causes all things to work together for
good for those who love God. God causes
even evil things to be worked out for the good of those who love God. Jesus Christ came to earth in a human body to
make Himself a sacrifice for the sins of man.
In doing this He became obedient to His Fathers will even though He had
to face evilness from man, and suffering from man to complete His obedience
through this suffering. It seems to me
that Jesus Christ shows the truthfulness of Romans 8:28 through His obedience
through His suffering. I know that at
times I wonder why God allows suffering in this world, but His Son went through
more suffering than anyone else who ever lived and God used that suffering to
bring about salvation to all those who will obey by believing He did that for
them so this shows me that God’s love for me even spans my sin, which is
something that He hates very much.
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am the type of person that has to
understand things before I buy into them, (so to speak.) It seems to me that I have a better grasp on
why humans suffer at times. This life
that I live here on this earth is the proving grounds of eternal life, and I
would suppose that suffering has and will be part of it. God used the sufferings of Jesus to bring
about eternal life for me and He can use sufferings to bring about growth in my
life to make me more like Jesus Christ.
The Word of God was very enlighting to me as I read it
today.
My
Steps of Today: To
trust the Lord with my life today and not to lean on my own understanding, in
all my ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct my path.
Memory verse for the week:
Colossians 4:5
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most
of every opportunity.
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