SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 02/15/2006
My Worship Time
Focus: The first mention of
the Gospel
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 3:15
Message of the verse: “15 And I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you
will strike his heel.’”
“God’s
words to Satan (v-15) are called the protevangelium,
‘the first Gospel,” because this is the first announcement of the coming
Redeemer found in the Bible.”
Paul wrote
in Galatians 4:1 “But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His
Son, born of a woman, born under the Law.”
The
word enmity can mean hatred, it can mean hostility, and it can mean bad
feelings, and so if you look at the history between Satan and the Lord Jesus Christ
from the Scriptures you can see all of these things, but that is certainly not
all of the story, for if you look throughout history there has always been
hatred between those who belong to Satan and those who belong to God. One example would be the Muslims and their
hatred for the true people of God, and how they have killed believers whenever
they get a chance to do so. Any believer
who has been killed for the cause of Christ can be seen through the eyes of this
verse. Of course the best example of
what this verse is truly written for is the crucification of Jesus Christ, and
this is where Satan bruised the heel of Christ, but Christ, through His victory
on the cross has crushed the head of Satan, for Satan’s fate was settled at the
cross and one day soon he will be put into the lake of fire as written about in
the last parts of the book of the Revelation.
When Jesus
was on this earth he spoke to some Pharisees and told them that “you are of
your father the Devil,” so indicating that the Devil has offspring just as seen
in this verse. God has called all those
who have been born-again through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ His
children or His offspring, which is also what this verse is speaking of.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Whenever a child is born into this world it
can be called a miracle, but the bigger miracle is when a person is born from
above through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, for when that
happens that person goes from being a child of Satan to becoming a child of
God, and that miracle happened to me on the 26th of January in the
year 1974, and that was truly the biggest miracle that has ever happened to me
or ever will.
The Word of God has been refreshing to my heart as I read
and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: To continue to trust the Lord
to lead me and to direct my paths, and to also have the Lord teach me
contentment. Continue to trust the Lord
with the decision of what job to work at, whether to stay at the church or to
go and work with Tim in the future, and also to continue to trust the Lord with
the investment that we have with Andrew Lech.
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