God Does Not Need our Help (Rev. 3:17)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 03/27/2005

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  God does not need our help

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  Revelations 3:17

 

            Message of the verse:  “Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,” (NAS95) “While you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and there is nothing that I need’, you have no eyes to see that you are wretched, pitiable, poverty-stricken, blind and naked.”  (Philips) 

            Jesus calls this the poor church, and they thought that they were rich, and Jesus calls the church as Sardis the rich church and they though they were poor.  “I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.”  (Rev 2:9)

            What can be seen here is that it is Jesus Christ who determines whether of not a church is what He wants it to be, and not up to those in the church.  Jesus does not need our help, but He desire our commitment to follow Him, and to listen to Him, and that is a good reason that at the end of all of these letters to these churches that he tells them to listen to what the Spirit has to say to the churches. 

            The Laodicean church has been described as a foolish church, and I think that it also could be described as a worldly church for it must have been into things like big buildings and things like that, and that is why they thought they were rich.  There is nothing wrong with money as long as it does not own you.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I think that it is important to understand what it is that Jesus wants me to do and then do it, and not to be like the people in the Laodicean church what believed that they were doing the correct thing and in fact were not doing the correct thing.  This is one reason that I need to be in the Word of God each and every day so that I can get my marching orders and then go out and do what He has shown me to do.

 

The Word of God has been convicting and also 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, that He will lead me and guide me and take care of me as He has promised, for He said that He will never leave me nor forsake me.