SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/20/2018 10:11 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: The Aspects of Blessing
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph. 1:3
Message of the
verses: “3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed
us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,”
I mentioned in our last SD that we
would be looking at a number of main points which have sub-points under them,
and so today I want to give the outline of what we will be looking at in
Ephesians 1:3, and then we will see how far we get as we move through the
sub-points. “Paul here presents six
aspects of the divine blessing he is about to unfold: the blessed One, God; the Blesser, also God;
the blessed ones, believers; the blessings, all things spiritual; the blessing
location, the heavenly places; and the blessing Agent, Jesus Christ.”
THE BLESSED ONE—GOD
We first look at such a gracious truth as it is
introduced appropriately by giving praise to the One who has made such
provision: “Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” I have
spoken of what this word “blessed” means as we look at it in the Greek in an
earlier SD. The Greek word for blessed
is “eulogeo” and from that word in
the English we get the word “eulogy” “a message of praise and commendation, the
declaration of a person’s goodness” writes John MacArthur. He goes on to write “Because no one is truly
good but God (Matt. 19:17), our supreme eulogy, our supreme praise, is for Him
alone.”
Goodness is one of the attributes of God, and when one
studies the attributes of God they will find that God is only good. God’s attributes have always been His
attributes, it is not that because He has provided salvation for those who
accept His Son’s provision for salvation that makes Him good, He has always
been, and always will be good, and I realize that this is difficult for humans
to get their arms around, none the less it is true. I don’t understand how God made the earth and
all of the stars that I see, and even those I don’t see, but I believe that He
made them just like the Bible says that He made them, that is, He made
something out of nothing. I don’t
understand this but I believe it. “"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the
things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all
the words of this law (Deut. 29:29).” I
have to say that there are a lot of secret things that belong to the Lord and
although I don’t understand them, for they are secret, I take them by faith
because things like His attributes are found as being true in the Word of
God.
There is only One human being who
demonstrates the goodness of God and that is His Son, and our Savior and Lord,
Jesus Christ. I have heard many times
that “so in so” is a good person, and yet no one possess goodness like God and
His Son. “Consequently from Genesis to
Revelation, godly men, recognizing the surpassing and humanly unattainable
goodness of God have proclaimed blessing upon Him. Melchizedek declared, ‘Blessed be God Most
High’ (Gen. 14:20). In the last days,
‘every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth
and on the sea, and all things in them’ will be ‘heard saying, ‘To Him who sits
on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion
forever and ever’’ (Rev. 5:13).”
What can we learn and do as
believers? Well we can appropriately
bless the Lord for His great goodness. I
am going to write something that is difficult if not possible for believers to
do if it were not for the indwelling Holy Spirit and that is that we are to do
this in every circumstance whether in pain, struggle, trials, frustration,
opposition, or even adversity we are to praise God, and the reason is because
His is good in the midst of it all, and for that we praise and bless Him.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I have to
say that in order for me to do this I have to truly know God in such a way that
I believe that He is in complete control of all that I go through, and whatever
I am going through is for my good, and for His glory, and is a part of my
sanctification process to make me more like Jesus my Lord and Savior.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the
Lord, even when He steps on my toes from studying His Word.
Answer to
yesterday’s Bible question: “Launch out
into the deep and let down your nets for a catch” (Luke 5:4).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said, ‘Deal gently for my
sake with the young man, even with Absalom’?”
Answer in our
next SD.
10/20/2018
10:48 AM
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