SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
3/28/2012 8:13:04 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
God is ruler and
provider for all!
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm
65:5-13
Message
of the verses: As we continue to
look at Psalm 65 in today’s SD I want to remind you of what Dr. Wiersbe wrote
at the end of his introduction in order to help us better understand more about
this psalm: “Whatever the historical
setting, the psalm helps us to worship our great God and glorify Him for who He
is and what He does for us.”
He
Is the Ruler of All Nations (vv. 5-8):
“5 By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, O God of our
salvation, You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest
sea; 6 Who establishes the mountains by His strength, Being girded with might; 7
Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult
of the peoples. 8 They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your
signs; You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.”
During the time when this psalm was
written and even before it was written the nations around Israel thought that
all nations had their own Gods, but one of the functions of Israel was to let
others around them that there was only One True God and so this psalm moves
from the people of Israel to all the nations of the world, and from God’s grace
to the Jews to God’s government of the Gentiles. We see in this section some things that God
did in creation and also in sustaining the earth. The roaring seas are a symbol of the nations
in tumult and confusion as seen in (Isa. 17:12-13; 60:5; Dan. 7:2-3; Rev. 13:1;
17:5). We know from Daniel 2:21 that it
is God who chooses the leaders of nations, all nations for God is in control of
all things that are going on in the world even though many people do not
believe this or understand this. At a
time when there is much confusion in many of the nations around the world
believers can be comforted by knowing that God is in control of all the nations
and God is in control of all the so called “natural disasters ” that are going
on around this earth.
He
Is the Provider of All We Need (vv. 9-13):
“9 You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water; You prepare their grain, for thus You
prepare the earth. 10 You water its furrows abundantly, You settle its ridges,
You soften it with showers, You bless its growth. 11 You have crowned the year
with Your bounty, And Your paths drip with fatness. 12 The pastures of the
wilderness drip, And the hills gird themselves with rejoicing. 13 The meadows
are clothed with flocks And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for
joy, yes, they sing.”
I believe that there is one thing
that is taught around the world that has been most devastating to the peoples
of the earth and that is evolution. After
doing a study by John MacArthur which he calls “The Battle for the Beginning” I
have seen from the data that he brings up in his book and from the messages
that he gave to the church that he is Pastor of, that evolution is
impossible. We have technology today
that proves that evolution is not possible and I do not have time to go into
all the details of this here, but once DNA was discovered it made evolutionist
look pretty dumb. The most detrimental
thing that evolution has caused in the world today is that it has given those
who accept it a way out of being accountable to God, for if the world was made
by chance then there is no One to be accountable to and this has led to many
people around the world close their eyes to God, who in these verses of Psalm
65 is seen as the Provider of things we all need including food. All people receive what is called “common
grace,” and that would be things like air to breathe, and food to eat, and a
way to make shelter to live in, things all people enjoy, but most do not
understand that this is all given to them by God’s grace.
Psalm 65 began in the small country
of Israel and now it has spread around the world and into the universe for
David writes of the rain and also the sun in this section of this psalm.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Psalm 65
is a psalm of praise to our Great God, who deserves all glory and honor. It has been nice to look at this psalm in
order to help me praise the Lord, for it was a good reminder to me of all the
things that God has, in His grace given to me.
The Savior He provided to pay for my sins and the Word He has provided
for me to understand Him better are two wonderful things to praise the Lord for
today and every day of my life.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
I pray and trust that God will give my family the grace we need to deal
with a difficult situation that we are facing at this time in our lives. I pray that through this situation that God
will use it to teach me contentment and to praise the Lord in difficult
situations.
3/28/2012 8:47:33 AM
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