SPIRITUAL
DIARY FOR 10/15/2012 8:40:36 AM
My Worship
Time Focus: Psalm 127 PT-3
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: Psalm 127:2-5
Message
of the verses: Today we will
look at our third lesson from the 127th Psalm remembering what Dr.
Wiersbe wrote at the end of his introductory commentary “But the psalm also
speaks to us today and reminds us of some privileges we have as the people of God in a dangerous
and demanding world.”
Enjoying (v.2)
“2 It
is vain for you to rise up early, To retire late, To eat the bread of painful
labors; For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.”2 It is useless for you
to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for
food to eat; for God gives rest to his
loved ones.” (NLT)
Whenever we looked at different
introductions to this psalm we found that John MacArthur wrote that this psalm
was written by Solomon and then he proceeded to give different verses in the
book of Ecclesiastes that seemed to compare with verses in this psalm. In Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on this
section he also sites different verses from Ecclesiastes that go along with
verse two: (2:24; 3:12-15, 22; 5:18-20;
8:15; 9:7-10; 11:9-10).
The psalmist is talking about work
and he is also talking about sleep. Both
work and sleep were things that were done before the fall, however the toil of
work is a part of the curse from the fall, “Then to Adam He said, "Because
you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about
which I commanded you, saying, ’You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the
ground because of you; In
toil you will eat of it All the days of your life (Genesis 3:17).” However even in our work we can bring glory
to the Lord, for God has given all His children gifts and talents that they can
use in their work. When we read John
4:34 we find out that Jesus’ work was to do the will of Him who sent Him, and
Jesus’ work at that junction was speaking to the woman at the well, to tell her
that He was Messiah and that by believing on Him she would be saved.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “The last line of
verse 2 is translated and interpreted several different ways, but the thrust of
it seems clear. We get tired in God’s
work but we do not get tired of God’s work, because the Lord who gives us the
strength to work also gives us the rest we need. ‘The sleep of a laboring man is sweet’ (Eccl.
5:12). I think what this verse is saying
is that we are to keep things in balance for we are not to work so much that we
have little time for other things that are enjoyable, and we are not to sleep
too much where we don’t get our work done.
Conserving
(vv. 3-5)
“3
Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. 4
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. 5 How
blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When
they speak with their enemies in the gate.”
It was just last night that I was
listening to a sermon by John MacArthur on abortion, which seems to be the
opposite of what this verse is talking about.
He stated that there are 50 million abortions that happen each year
around the world. This means that at the
end of World War Two there were some 55 million people killed and now we almost
kill that many innocent children in this world each year.
As I look at the six grandchildren
that I have, as I look at their different personalities that they have I am
amazed at how blessed that I am to have these six little children, for they
surely are a blessing to me.
When the children of Israel came
back to the city of Jerusalem from their captivity in Babylon there was a great
need to raise families because their numbers were very small and we know that
children to the Jewish people was very important to them and still is to this
day for they knew and still know that children are a gift from the Lord.
Dr.
Wiersbe writes the following at the conclusion to this section, “Not everyone
is supposed to get married, nor are all married couples able to have
children. But all adults can value the
children, pray for them, be good examples to them, and see that they are
protected and cared for and encouraged in their spiritual upbringing. Remember what Jesus said about this in
Matthew 18:5-6.” “5 "And whoever
receives one such child in My name receives Me; 6 but whoever causes one of
these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to
have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of
the sea.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: As I look
at this last section in Psalm 127 and then look around at the world that I am
living in it makes me pray more and harder for another great awakening to be
given to us by God’s Holy Spirit to wake up the Church in our country.
My Steps of
Faith for Today: Continue to
learn contentment, and continue to pray for revival in our land.
Memory
verses for the week: 1Cor. 13:8-11
8 Love
never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if
there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done
away. 9 For we know in part and we
prophecy in part, 10 but when the
perfect comes the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I use to
speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a
man I did away with childish things.
10/15/2012
9:31:50 AM
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