SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/10/2013 2:45 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “God’s
Glory Versus Man’s Disgrace”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Daniel
6:25-27
Message of the
verses: We will look at the second
sub-point under this forth main point from Dr. Wiersbe’s outline for this sixth
chapter of Daniel.
The Lord was Glorified (Daniel 6:25-27): “25 Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land: "May your peace abound! 26 "I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel; For He is the living God and enduring forever, And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be forever. 27 “He delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, who has also delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.’”
It was mentioned in the last SD that God could have kept
Daniel from going into the lion’s den, but one of the reasons that God allowed
Daniel to go into the lion’s den was so that He would receive glory and we see
that God did receive glory from the king in these three verses. At the beginning of the chapter Darius declared
himself to be God, but now he declares the God of the Hebrews to be God. Now we know that not all of the people who
lived in the kingdom of the Medes and the Persians began to believe in God, but
it was a wonderful thing that the king declared God to be God, and it was
because He delivered Daniel from the mouths of the lions.
Now here is something we should remember from the story and others like it that we find in the Scriptures and that is that when we get ourselves into some kind of trouble we most generally pray that God would deliver us from that trouble, but perhaps we should pray that God would see us through the trouble and that by doing that He will receive glory.
I mentioned in an earlier SD’s that whenever a kingdom
would conquer another kingdom they would take the gods of the defeated kingdom
and put them into the temples of their gods showing that there gods were
superior to the conquered peoples gods.
In this story in Daniel and others like it we see that even though the
Babylonians put the vessels they found in the temple of their gods, the God of
the Hebrews is still seen to be the One true God, even though the Jews were
defeated in 586 B. C.
One more thing to take note of and that is that the
things that Darius said about the Lord are as true as what Moses or David or
even Paul said about the Lord, and we don’t know whether or not he actually
knew the Lord in a personal way.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Remember that there are times
when God will see me through the trouble that I am in and not just take the
trouble away.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Proverbs 3:5-6.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 46:1-9
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear
though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of
the sea; 3 though the waters roar and
foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.
4 There is a river whose streams make glade the city of God the holy
dwelling place of the most high. 5 God
is in the midst of her, she will not be moved, God will help her when morning
dawns.
6 The nations make an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He
raised His voice, the earth melted. 7
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
8 Come behold the works of the Lord, who has wrought desolations in the
earth. 9 He makes wars to cease to the
end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the
chariots with fire.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “A chamber (house or room) (2
Kings 4:8-10).”
Today’s Bible
Question: “Who shall sit in the temple
of God trying to act as God?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
8/10/2013 3:21 PM
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