God Provided the Lamb (Heb. 10:7-9)

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

                                                                                                            Date:  05-04-03

 

My Worship Time      Focus:  God provided the Lamb

 

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Hebrews 10:7-9

 

            1.  Message of the verse:  “7  Then I said, 'Here I am-- it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, O God.'" 8  First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made).  9  Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.”  (NIV) 

            As stated in my spiritual diary from yesterday, God has provided the sacrifice for sin in the person of Jesus Christ, and these verses continue to explain this.  Again these are quotations from Psalm 40 and the writer uses the LXX version to quote from.  I wish to make a comment on the statement “Sacrifices and offerings, you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them.”  God set up the OT sacrifices as a type of the sacrifice that would totally please Him, and that is of His Son.  God is interested in obedience, as it says in this passage, “I delight to do Thy will O LORD.”  If a person from the OT gave the sacrifices and did not desire to do the will of God then they were only an exercise in futility, for they were not given in the way that God had intended them to be given.  Saul gave sacrifices with the wrong intention, as a ritual, and God told him that He was more interested in obedience.  I believe this is the point that the writer is trying to get across in this section, or at least one of the points.

 

            2.  Spiritual meaning for my life today:  God is more interested in obedience from me, and if I do so called “religious” things with the wrong attitude then I can have the same problem that Saul ran into.  If I do my devotions or attend Church or any other things like that with the wrong attitude, then I am only doing them for myself, and not to please the Lord.

 

The Word of God was very convicting to my heart as I read it this morning.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  To do all that I do for the glory of the Lord as I learned this morning from this passage.  I want to trust the Lord with my problem of IBS, and trust Him to work out His characteristics of compassion and courage within my heart replacing fear and selfishness that are too much of a factor in my life at this time.

 

Memory verse for the week:  Psalm 40:12