SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date: 03-30-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Better covenant ministered by superior High
Priest
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 8:1
1. Message of the verse: “1 ¶ Now the main point in what has been said
is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand
of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary, and
in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.” (NASB)
“Here is the main point: Our High
Priest sat down in the place of highest honor in heaven, at God’s right
hand. There he ministers in the sacred
tent, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human
hands.” (NLT)
I will
deal with verse one today and then, by God’s grace, deal with verse two
tomorrow.
The phrase
main point means the main point that the writer has been writing about is the
Priesthood of Jesus Christ. I actually
think that this goes back to the point he was making to his original readers when he said that they
could not bare or understand these truths and then later came back to the
writings about Jesus Christ as High Priest.
The phrase “such a high priest” is the same that he used in 7:26
referring to Jesus Christ’s moral adequacy.
The writer explains the enthronement of Jesus Christ in the phrase, “who
has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the
heavens.” The work of the OT priest was
never completed, therefore there was no place for him to sit, and not only is
Christ seated, but seated at the right hand of God as He promised Him in Psalm
110:1, “The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand, Until I make
Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet."
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: I can say that in my own life that the
Priesthood of Jesus Christ has never been as important to me as it has since I
have been studying in these past months in this wonderful book. It has become much more clear to me that this
plan of God to not only have Jesus Christ die as a perfect sacrifice for my
sins, but the plan was always in affect to make Jesus Christ High Priest. There is mush benefit to me, as it is to all
God’s children to have such a wonderful, merciful, sympathetic High Priest who
as at this very moment sitting on His throne at the right hand of God in heaven
ministering on my behalf, and on behalf of all His children.
The Word of God was both refreshing and challenging to me
as I read it today.
My
Steps of Faith Today: To
trust the Lord to grant Sandy and me safely as we travel towards the condo that
we have rented for the month of April. I
want to trust the Lord to give me victory over the problems of IBS.
Memory verses for the week:
Psalm 40:1-7
1.
I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and
heard my cry.
2.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the
miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
3.
And He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our
God; Many will see and fear, And will trust in the LORD.
4.
How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, and
has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
5.
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which Thou hast done,
And Thy thoughts towards us; There is none to compare to Thee; If I would
declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.
6.
Sacrifice and meal offering Thou hast not desired; My ears
Thou hast opened; Burnt offering and sin offering Thou hast not required.
7.
Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it
is written of me;
8.
I delight to do Thy will, O my God; Thy Law is within my
heart.”
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