Come Out from Among Them (Rev. 18:4-5)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/15/2005

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  Come out from among them

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  Revelation 18:4-5

 

            Message of the verse:  “4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;

5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”

            John now hears another voice and this is the voice of separation that comes from heaven.  God has always wanted his people separated from those who are of the world and in this case those who are of this “Babylonian Religion.”  There are examples of this in Scripture of God separating His people from those of the world, examples like when He called Abram out of the land where he was living because the people there were worshipers of idols and God did not want his people being influenced by idol worshipers.  God also separated Lot from the influence of Sodom and Gomorrah because of the prayers of Abraham.  The believer is warned in 1 John to not love the world or the things in the world, and loving the world is like loving commercial Babylon.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  These verses have a lot to say to me as a believer in Jesus Christ who goes through temptations from this world system each and every day of my life.

 

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

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord throughout all of the trials and tests that He has sent my way, to grow in them and to draw closer to the Lord throughout all of these tests and trials.