SPIRITUAL DIARY
FOR 10/28/2012 7:28:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 132
PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm 132:6-9
Message of
the verses: We will continue to look at Psalm 132 in
Today’s SD. Dr. Wiersbe wrote the
following at the end of his introductory commentary, “The completion of the
temple was no assurance of God’s blessing on Israel, for the important thing
was that the people fulfill
their responsibilities toward the Lord.”
We looked at the first responsibility in yesterdays SD.
Express to God Your Joyful Worship (vv.
6-9)
“6 Behold, we heard of it in
Ephrathah, We found it in the field of Jaar. 7 Let us go into His dwelling place;
Let us worship at His footstool. 8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You
and the ark of Your strength. 9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness,
And let Your godly ones sing for joy.”
I wrote in yesterday’s SD a limited
history of the Ark of the Covenant, but it has always been a mystery to me as
to what happen to the Tabernacle itself, for it seems the last time we saw it
in Shiloh where the wicked sons of Eli “ministered” until they decided to take
it out to be a good luck charm in a battle with the Philistines and then the
Ark was lost for a short time. At any
rate when the temple was built by Solomon we read that there were new articles
built to go with it that were like the ones that were in the tabernacle that
was built in the wilderness. Things like
the lampstands, the brazen altar, and things like that.
It seems like the children of Israel
had almost forgotten about the Ark while it was at the house of Abinadad who
lived just eight miles from Jerusalem at Kirjath Jearim (city of woods). It may have been that the people of Bethlehem
encouraged David to go and bring the Ark to Jerusalem, where it also seems like
that David had very a desire to do so as he had prepared a tent for it in
Jerusalem where he would go to worship the Lord. We also know that once Solomon built the
temple that the Glory of the Lord moved into the temple in a similar way that
He had done in the tabernacle in the wilderness once it was completed and this
must have been some kind of a sight to see.
However we as believers have the Spirit of God living in our hearts and
so that makes us the temple of the Holy Spirit so we do not have to go to
Jerusalem and be in a temple in order to worship the Lord.
Charles H. Spurgeon writes the
following about “His footstool,” The Lord’s “footstool" here mentioned was
either the Ark of the Testimony itself, or the place at least where it stood,
called Debir, or the Holy of Holies, towards which the Jews in their temple
used to worship. The very next words argue so much: "Arise, O LORD, into
thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength"; and it is plain out of 1Ch
28:2, where David saith concerning his purpose to have built God an house,
"I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God," where the conjunction and
is exegetical, and the same with that is. According to this expression the
prophet Jeramiah also, in the beginning of the second of his Lamentations,
bewailed that "the Lord had cast down the beauty of Israel" (that is,
his glorious Temple), "and remembered not his footstool" (that is,
the Ark of the Covenant), "in the day of his wrath"; as Isa 60:7
64:11 Ps 96:6.”
Dr. Wiersbe points out “That the
statement in verse eight is taken from Numbers 10:33-36 and reminded the
worshipers of God guidance and power exhibited in the days of Moses.
As we look at the
prayer in verse nine we see the answer in verse 16, “"Her priests also I
will clothe with salvation, And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.’”
After many years of wondering around
the wilderness and the nation of Israel the Lord could now rest in a temple
built for Him in Jerusalem.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: As I read
Psalms 120-134, the psalms of ascent, I realize how much time and effort that
it took the Jews to worship the Lord at His temple. I am happy that I do not have to go through
this in order to worship the Lord, but I am also at times disappointed in
myself to think that far too many times that I don’t take advantage of the fact
that the Holy Spirit lives in me and that I can worship the Lord at any time in
any place. D. L. Moody wrote after hearing
a preacher state “The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and
through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.” Moody then thought to himself, “He said ‘a
man.’ He did not say a great man, nor a
learned man, nor a rich man, nor a wise man, nor an eloquent man, nor a smart
man, but simply ‘a man.’ I am a man, and
it lies with the man himself whether he will or will not make that entire and
full consecration. I will try my
uttermost to be that man.” Well we know
the history of what Moody did as he was a great man of God, and to this very
day there are people working around the entire world that are still affected by
D. L. Moody because he answered the call of God, and because he chose to be
“that man.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: It is my
desire to be “TRANSFORMED” by the Lord from the inside out by the renewing of
my mind through the Word of God.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 130:1-2
1 Out of the depths I have cried to
You, O Lord. 2 Lord, hear my voice! Let
Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications. 10/28/2012 8:28:55 AM
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