God's Truth from 2 Timothy 2:19

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8-05-02

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  God’s truth

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  2Timothy 2:19

 

            Message of the verse:  “But God’s truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription: ‘The Lord know those who are his,’ and ‘Those who claim they belong to the Lord must turn away from all wickedness.’”  (NLT)

            Paul has been speaking or writing about those who are false teachers, who are teaching their poison to them who would listen, and now Paul affirms to Timothy that God truth comtinues to stand firm and that he need not worry that the elect will be fooled by these lies that the false teachers are telling.  God’s truth has these inscriptions on it, 1) The Lord know those who are His, and 2) Those who claim they belong to the Lord must turn away from all wickedness.  God knows who are His and those who are truly His will want to and be able to turn away from wickedness.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  In other letters that Paul has written he tells believers to check and make sure that they belong to God.  It is the best thing in the whole big wide world to belong to God; there can be nothing else that can compare to this.  God does know His own children and I can rejoice in the knowledge that I am one of His, not because of what I have done, but because of what God has done for me.  I have also had the desire to do good thing ever since God saved me, I have not always done good things though, but the desire is still there and I am thankful for the fact that God has not given up on me.

 

The Word of God was very refreshing to me today!

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  I want to make sure that I have my prayer time alone and with Sandy, as I did not do a good job of praying by myself yesterday.

 

Memory verses for the week:  1Timothy 6:9,10

 

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.   For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.