SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/20/2018 9:15 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “Jesus: The Culmination of History”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts
13:17-22
Message of the verses: “17 “The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out from it. 18 “For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness. 19 “When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance-all of which took about four hundred and fifty years. 20 “After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 “Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 "After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ’I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY HEART, who will do all My will.’”
I have to say that this section has taken longer for me
to complete that I thought it would have, but when studying the Word of God you
have to be sure that you are open to what the Spirit of God is doing in your
heart and so sometimes the short sections take longer than the longer sections.
One only has to read through the book of Judges to find
out how Israel had sinned and continued to sin against the Lord. Towards the end of the book of Joshua we read
“31 Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the
elders who survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the LORD which He
had done for Israel.” It was the second
generation that was the ones who served the Lord and then after that we find
that in the book of Judges it was an up and down service of the Lord by the
people with the general direction down.
In my study of the seven churches in the book of Revelation we see the
same thing happening in the church age as it began with the church at Ephesus
losing their love for the Lord which began the downward spiral and when you
take out the two churches, Smyrna and Philadelphia who Christ had no
condemnation you can see the other five churches in a downward spiral. You end up with the church at Laodicea where
you actually find Christ on the outside of the Church asking to come in.
Paul then talks about the two kings that Israel first
had, Saul and David. Saul was the king
that the people wanted and he turned out to be a bad king, and then David was the
king that God chose for the people and he was a man after God’s own heart. When the people cried out to Samuel the
prophet for a king it broke his heart as he did not want to ask God to give
them a king because he knew that the Lord was their king, but the people wanted
to be like the nations around them as they wanted a king who would solve all
their problems, but in reality it caused more problems for them. In the 17th chapter of the book of
Deuteronomy Moses writes the following about Israel wanting a king: “14 "When you enter the land which the
LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ’I
will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the
LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king
over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your
countryman. 16 "Moreover, he shall
not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to
Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, ’You shall never
again return that way.’ 17 “He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else
his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for
himself. 18 "Now it shall come about
when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of
this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. 19 “It shall be
with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to
fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and
these statutes, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and
that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so
that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel
(Deu. 17:14-20).” God knew this would
happen as it was actually His plan because once David became king of Israel God
made a covenant with him that the Messiah would be born through his line which
of course Jesus was which is what Paul is leading up to in this sermon.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: God knows
everything and God has a plan for the people on planet earth and I believe that
plan centers around His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord’s plane for my life even
though at times it is not what I would choose for my life.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Amos”
Today’s Bible
question: “How old was Moses when he
first appeared before Pharaoh to deliver the children of Israel?
Answer in our next SD.
2/20/2018 9:57 AM
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