SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 02/11/2005
My Worship Time Focus: Patience under fire
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Rev 2:3
Message of the verse: 3 and you have perseverance and have endured
for My name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
(NAS95) 3 I know your powers of
endurance—how you have suffered for the sake of my name and have not grown
weary. (Philips)
There are
some things in this verse that are a mystery because it is hard form me to
understand how these believers could suffer for the Lord’s sake, and yet not
have Christ as their first love as He says in the next verse. It has seemed to me that somehow these
believers were doing all of their good things just to do them as a duty, yet
not through the Holy Spirit’s power. At
any rate these believers were suffering in some way for the cause of Christ and
they were holding up under this persecution to the extent that Jesus Christ
commends them for it. The circumstances
that they found themselves in did not get them down, but they must have realized
that they should be good soldiers of Christ and trust Him, even through
persecutions.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I do believe that God is the One who has to
give patience to me, or teach me to develop patience through the difficult
times that I go through while upon this earth and I must respond to those
difficulties in the same way that these believers did.
The Word of God has again been a challenge to my heart as I
read it and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: To continue to trust the Lord
as I go through some difficult times, knowing that He is in control, and that
He will see me through these times for my good and for His glory.
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