SPIRITUAL
DAIRY FOR 06-11-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Moses and the first
Passover
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 11:28
Message
of the verse: “28 By faith he kept
the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the
firstborn should not touch them.” (NASB) “It was by faith hat Moses commanded the
people of Israel to keep the Passover and to sprinkle blood on the doorposts so
that the angel of death would not kill their firstborn sons.” (NLT)
When you
stop and think about all of the things that happened in Egypt that Moses was a
part of it seems to the human mind that they were unbelievable, and if a person
did not know about God, all of this
would have seemed unexplainable. Now
this verse speaks of the Passover, and again if you did not know God you would
think that killing a perfect one-year old lamb, and then sprinkling its blood
on the doorposts of your house, that you would not be harmed when the death
angel comes to kill the first-born in all the houses who did not have the blood
applied upon their doorposts. John Gill,
whose notes are on the online Bible has this to say about all of this: “
lest
he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them; for the Lord, seeing the blood
sprinkled, as above, when he smote the firstborn of Egypt, passed by the houses
of the Israelites, so distinguished; and they were all safe within, and not one
of them touched: this was typical of the blood of Christ being sprinkled upon
the hearts and consciences of his people; whereby they are purified through
faith; which blood is looked upon by Jehovah, so that justice passes by them;
and they are all safe and secure, and will be, when others are destroyed; nor
can they be hurt by the second death.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today:
I think of the concept that is taught about God in the Bible that says
that His ways are not our ways, and that who can know the mind of God as I look
at this verse that I am studying about today.
As I think of it in human terms I would think it silly or perhaps
different to believe that applying the blood of a lamb to the doorpost of my
house would save me from death, or that if I would accept the death of Christ a
payment for my sins that I would inherit heaven and miss hell, for when God looks
down upon me He can see that I have the blood of Jesus Christ sprinkled upon my
heart and that He will passover me and not judge me because He has already
judged me when He judged me in Christ’s suffering and death.
Now as I
apply this to the storm that I we are in over our investments with Andrew Leck,
I can in a way think about it a purifying storm sent by the Lord to make me
more like the image of my Lord Jesus Christ.
I see this storm like Israel saw the storms that God has sent upon the
land of Egypt to set the people of Israel free from the bonds of Egypt. They saw this probably as fearful, yet
necessary for their freedom to leave Egypt, even though they probably did not
like it. I do not like the storm that I
am in at this present time, but by faith I want to hold tightly to the promises
of the Word of God, for He will never leave me nor forsake me.
The Word of God was again a challenge to my heart, yet it
was refreshing to me.
My
Steps of Faith Today: I
want to trust the Lord to see me through this storm that He has put me in, and
not me alone, for there are many others in this storm with me. He if faithful, and He knows what it is that
is good for me, and all of the others who are in this with me. I pray that the Lord will show me the reason
that I am in this storm, and I can give thanks that He is doing all of this
because He loves me to much to leave me the way that I was before I was in this
storm He sent my way.
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