SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
7/15/2012 8:47:17 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Psalm 105 PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm
105:42-45
Message
of the verses: In Today’s SD we will
look at the last section in the lengthy 105th Psalm remembering that
this psalm is talking about the history of the nation of Israel.
All
Believers—God’s Dependable Promise (vv. 42-45): “41 He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river. 42 For He remembered His holy word With
Abraham His servant; 43 And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen
ones with a joyful shout. 44 He gave them also the lands of the nations, That
they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor, 45 So that they might keep His statutes And
observe His laws, Praise the LORD!”
I am not sure how many Bible
Scholars believe what I am about to write, but I heard a long time ago that
there are many who believe that the rock that is spoken of in verse 41 was
carried around by Israel in their wilderness wonderings so that it supplied
water for them. I suppose that this
thought does have merit because when you have at least two million people
wandering in the wilderness they had to have a source of water to survive.
I have mentioned earlier that Dr.
Wiersbe believes that this psalm was written after the exiles of Israel
returned from Babylon and when I look at this psalm in the way that it was
written I can believe it. I think about
the books of 1st and 2nd Chronicles and it is believed
that these two books were written after the exiles returned in order to give
them a history of Israel. In these two
books you only see the history of Judah and they do not contain all of the
sinfulness that went on, but focused more on how the Lord moved through the
different peoples of Judah, especially focusing on King David. It is in this book that we find out that the
evil King Manasseh came to know the Lord in a saving way at the end of his
life. So we see in Psalm 105 that the
psalmist leaves out all of the sinful things that happened by Israel on their
wilderness wonderings, the things that went on at Mt. Sinai, and at Kadesh
Barnes where Israel refused to enter the land and thus walked around in the
wilderness for forty years until all who were over twenty years old had
died. This psalm focuses in on God’s
great works and does not expose the great failures of man. I have to say at this point, because we are
on the subject, that the New Testament does not focus in on the sins of those
in the OT when they are mentioned because their sins have been forgiven through
Jesus Christ. When the Bible mentions
David in the NT it does not mention any of his sins or any other of the OT
saints sins.
The
psalmist mentions the promise that God made with Abraham, giving them the
Promised Land, and the fact that God kept His promise to Abraham as the people
defeated the nations who were in that land, something God told Abraham in
Genesis chapter fifteen. God even told
Abraham that Israel would come out from the land that kept them captive for 400
years with many spoils.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “God’s people live on promises,
not explanations, and it is ‘through faith and patience’ that we see
these promises fulfilled (Heb. 6:12).”
This is something very important to remember that believers live on
promises and not explanations. I am sure
that the children of Israel who lived in Egypt those 400 years had to believe
the promise that God would send a redeemer to remove them from Egypt, for their
lives were surely very hard during those long year and they needed hope in the
Lord in order to survive. There was no
written Word at that time from the Bible only the hope that was passed down
from generation to generation of a promise that was given to Abraham concerning
his descendants by the Lord.
Dr. Wiersbe goes on to write “But
God’s keeping His promise meant more for Israel than victory over the enemy and
the acquisition of riches. It meant
accepting the responsibility of obeying the God who had been so faithful to
them. Before his death, Joshua
reminded the people what the Lord had done for them and admonished them to
serve the Lord and not turn to idols (Josh. 24:1-28). When we consider all that the Lord has done
for us, we find we have the same obligation.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: To
remember all that the Lord has done for me through the “precious and
magnificent promises” that He has given to me.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
I am having a difficult time memorizing the verses in 2Peter that I
believe the Lord desires for me to memorize, and my step of faith today is to
continue to work on them until I have them memorized in order to meditate on
the great truths that are found in these verses.
Memory
Verses for the Week: 2Peter 1:1-6
1.
Simon
Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To
those who have received a faith of the same kind as our, by the righteous of
our God
and
Savior, Jesus Christ. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge
of God and Jesus our Lord; 3. seeing the His divine power has granted to us
everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him
who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4. For by these He has granted
to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that you can be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
5. Now for this very reason also,
applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your
moral excellence, knowledge, 6. and in your knowledge self-control, and in your
self-control perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
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