SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
8/11/2012 8:02:32 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm
113 PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Psalm 113: 4-6
Message
of the verses: In Today’s SD we will
pick up where we left off in the last SD that began with Psalm 113:1-3, and
also we looked at three commentators who looked at the introduction to this
psalm. Dr. Wiersbe wrote at the end of
his introduction these words: “The psalm
opens and closes with hallelujah (praise Jehovah) and gives us three wonderful
reasons for praising the Lord.” We
looked at the first reason for praising the Lord in the last SD.
God’s
Throne Is the Highest (vv. 4-6): “4
The LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. 5 Who is
like the LORD our God, Who is enthroned on high, 6 Who humbles Himself to
behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?”
God’s throne is not like the thrones
of earthly kings, for God’s throne is above all nations for it is in heaven,
which is above the heavens. Now that may
not make a lot of sense but when we say that God’s throne is above the heavens
we are talking about the planets and the stars that were created by God in the
creation which is seen in Genesis chapter one where the text says almost as an
afterthought “He made the stars also.”
Yet there are billions upon billions of stars and even billions upon
billions of galaxies. We have learned
much more about the stars in the generation that we live in now with higher
technology than we have now, things like the Hubel Telescope, and also
instruments that can listen to the sounds that come from outer space. God’s throne is above all of this.
Dr. Wiersbe writes, “It is not our
Lord’s transcendence that captivates the psalmist but His willingness to ‘stoop
down’ and pay attention to mere mortals who do not always honor Him.” I should add that hardly everyone honors
Him. We know that most earthly kings are
not accessible to their subject, but the writer to the Hebrews says, “Heb 4:16
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we
may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” When Jesus died upon the cross the curtain
that separated the holy place from the holy of holies was torn from the top to
the bottom showing that all of those who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as
their Savior and Lord can now have direct access to God, which in the OT took a
priest, but all believers are priests so that we can have access to the Lord,
and the wonderful part of all of this is that He desires us to have contact
with Him.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Dr.
Wiersbe writes at the end of this section of his commendatory these words, “For the believer, God’s throne
is not only a throne of glory and authority, but it is also a throne of grace,
a topic the psalmist explained in the next three verses.”
The verse in Hebrews that was
quoted above shows to me that God’s throne is a throne of grace, and grace is a
very wonderful thing to have, for we are saved by grace through faith, which
means that we do not have to work for it and could not work for it, but it is a
gift from God so that we will not have anything to boast about.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
Trust the Lord to work out some problems that are affecting my life at
this time.
Memory
verses for the week: 2Peter 1:1-9
1 ¶
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who
have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God
and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and
peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
3 seeing that 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 by them you may become 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, 7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness,
and in your brotherly kindness, love. 8
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you
neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten
his purification for his former sins.
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