SPIRITUAL
DIARY
My
Worship Time Focus: God’s teaching of
patience
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 6:13,14
1. Message of the verse: “saying, ‘I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU, AND I WILL
SURELY MULTIPLY YOU.’ And thus, having
patiently waited, he obtained the promise.” (NASB) “’I will certainly bless your richly, and I
will multiply your descendants into countless millions.’ Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received
what God had promised.”(NLT)
God promised Abraham that he would have a son who would be
born in his old age and would be the son who would continue on with the
blessings that God would bestow upon his family who became the nation of
Israel. God fulfilled his promise in
spite of Abraham’s sin and failures to God.
As stated yesterday some of God’s promises are not affected by the
failures of His servants. However the
long-term affect of the sin can still produce heartache. An example of this was when Abraham went down
to Egypt and lied about his wife to protect himself had long term effects on
even the people of this country because he was not suppose to go there and he
certainly was not suppose to lie and one of the effects of this lie was
bringing Hagar back with them and without Hagar there would not be any Arabs
today. I would like to mention that the
word translated “waited patiently” is the opposite of the word translated
slothful. Warren Wiersbe translates this
verse as follows: “You will obtain and
enjoy what God has promised if you diligently apply yourself to the development
of your spiritual life.” This is what
the readers needed to hear because of how they were thinking about going back
into Judaism and he knew this was not the thing for them to do.
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: The Bible has a lot to say about patience and
you hear often in Christian circles that you should not pray for patience
because if you do then God will send tragedy into your life so you have to
learn patience through it. I have recently
heard that this is not true all of the time and thus it will not hurt to pray
for more patience and I do believe that God will not automatically send a
hardship your way unless it is in your best interest to do so. I also know that many, many times in my life
I do things in to big of a hurry just to get them done no matter how it turns
out, and many times I wish I would have had the patience to do it right the
first time. I remember a sign in the
nurse’s office at work that said, “how come you always have time to do it over,
but never have time to do it right the first time.” This is a lesson that is hard for me to do
and I believe one of the reasons is because I do not always take the time to
pray about it in the first place.
The Word of God was convicting to me as I read it today and
it also has given me some challenges.
My
Steps of Faith Today: Sandy
and I are in real need of praying together about things that we need guidance
from the Lord on. One of these things is
when we plan on doing some of the rooms in our house over again with new
decorations. We have failed to have
patience with each other and with the Lord in this area of our lives. I need to step out on faith and begin this
process in our lives together again and do it this time as the Lord leads.
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 mouth, a song of praise to our God;
Many will see and fear and will trust in the LORD.
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