SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/10/2020 10:09 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “God’s Program”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
6:10a
Message of the
verse: “Thy kingdom come.”
We want to begin this section by looking at a hymn that
was written by Frances Havergal entitled “His Coming in Glory.” This hymn is found in MacArthur’s commentary.
“Oh, the joy to see Thee reigning
Thee, my own beloved Lord.
Every tongue Thy name confessing,
Worship, honor, glory, blessing,
Brought to Thee with glad accord.
Thee, my Master and my Friend,
Vindicated and enthroned,
Unto earth’s remotest end,
Glorified, adored, and owned.”
So it is my desire to put some flesh on this statement
“Thy kingdom come,’ as it is a part of what we as believers should be praying
for, praying that our Lord and Savior will come to sit upon His throne and rule
over all the earth. When we pray “Thy kingdom come”
it is to pray for the program of the eternal deity to be fulfilled, and for
Christ to come and reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. This is something that we should be praying
for each day as we look forward to that day.
The problem is that our prayers are mostly self-centered,
as they focus on our needs, our plans, our aspirations, and our understandings. MacArthur writes “We are often like tiny
infants, who know no world but the world of their own feelings and wants. One of the greatest struggles of the
Christian life is to fight the old sinful habits, with their constant and
unrelenting focus on self.” I have to
say that I totally agree with what was quoted here.
He goes on “Even problems and issues outside of ourselves
can cloud our supreme concern for God’s kingdom. It is our responsibility to pray for our
families, pastors, missionaries, national and other leaders, and for many other
people and things. But our prayers in
every case should be that God’s will be done in and through those people, that
they would think, speak, and act in accordance with God’s will. The best we can pray for any person or for
any cause is that God’s kingdom be advanced in that person or that cause.”
I won’t go back to the whole story that I have written
about in past SD’s but want to talk about what I think could have happened in
eternity past when the triune God made plans to create the earth, along with
angels and humans. God the Father
planned to send His Son to earth and because of this His Son will be glorified
by the Father, and a part of that was the payment of our sins, through His
death, burial, and resurrection, as God was satisfied with what Christ
accomplished. So the purpose of the
divine Father is to exalt Christ in the consummation of history when Jesus
Christ, God’s Son will rule and reign in His kingdom, so this is what we are to
pray for, and try to think about this each day.
John MacArthur quotes from The Talmud “It is right in saying that if a
prayer does not name the kingdom of God, it is not a prayer (Berakoth 21a).
What do you think is the greatest opposition to Christ’s
kingdom, and the greatest opposition to our Christian living? Living in the kingdom of this present world,
which Satan rules, that along with the essence of Satan’s kingdom is opposition
to God’s kingdom and God’s people.
Living in the year 2020 in this world we can see this to be true,
perhaps more true than in years past.
You see Satan thinks that he is going to win, but the Word of God tells
us that will never happen, but that does not stop him from doing evil every
single day. We are living in a world
where Romans 1:32 is being lived out: “and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who
practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also
give hearty approval to those who practice them.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Praying
for the kingdom to come and for Christ to rule and reign is something that I
certainly need to be much more active in.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the
Lord to take care of the evil that has gone on in our Presidential election.
11/10/2020
10:47 AM
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