SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date: 03-06-03
My
Worship Time Focus: God promises
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 6:13
1. Message of the verse: “For when God made the promise to Abraham,
since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,” (NASB)
“For example, there was God’s promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by,
God took an oath in His own name saying:”
(NLT)
Yesterday
I referred to Joshua and Caleb as to whom the writer was referring to when he
wrote about promises and it could certainly fit into the situation he was
referring to from the Old Testament, however he now brings up in this verse the
promise that God made to Abraham. In the
promises that God made with Abraham He swore by Himself because there was no on
greater to sware by as this verse states.
I believe this verse shows that God will bring about His purposes for
man even if at times man falls on his face, and the reason that I say this is
because of God swearing by Himself. God
fulfills some of His promises to believers in spite of them acting sinful
because this is what He has intended for them to do. Case in point is what the writer has been
referring to in the previous chapters when he wrote about Israel’s journey to
the promise land. It was God’s purpose
that they get there and even though only two of the people who left Egypt go
there the next generation did get there so God’s purpose was done in spite of
man’s sin. I do not want to seem as if
the only thing that counts is God’s purpose being fulfilled without any emotion
from God, for it is because of God’s great love for man that He has made these
promises and this is what we as believers need to hold onto by faith as the
writer eludes to in these next verses, after all faith is one of the main
themes in this wonderful book.
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: To believer that some of God’s promises are
for me and to step out on faith and claim these promises in my life so that I
do not have to go through a type of life like the majority of the ones who God
brought out of Egypt.
The Word of God has been challenging to me as I read it
this morning.
My
Steps of Faith Today: To believe that God
has a purpose for my life each day that I live and to be faithful to Him as I
seek to do His will each and every day, for He knows more about my life than I
will ever know.
Memory verses for the week:
Psalm 40: 1-3
I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and
heard my cry.
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.
And He put a new song in my heart, a song of praise to our
God; Many will see and fear, And will trust in the LORD.
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