SPIRITUAL DIARY
FOR 10/29/2012 11:03:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 132
PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm 132:10-12
Message of
the verses: We continue to look at Psalm 132 in Today’s
Spiritual Diary beginning with verse 10.
Remind God of His Faithful Covenant (vv.
10-12)
“10
For the sake of David Your servant, Do not turn away the face of Your
anointed.11 The LORD has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn
back: "Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. 12 “If your
sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons
also shall sit upon your throne forever.’”
I think that it best to go back in the life of David in
order to see how it was that God promised him to have the Messiah come through
his line. When one follows the “seed” as
it goes through the Old Testament they will see that it actually begins in
Genesis 3:15, and in that verse we see something unique, and that is the seed
is called the “seed of the woman,” and that is the only time we see that in the
Bible. What is God speaking about in
this verse? “And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on
the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.’” The background to this verse is that sin had
just entered into the human race by the disobedient of Adam and Eve, who were
tempted by Satan. God is speaking to
Satan here telling him that He would put enmity between him and the woman, and
also between her seed and Satan’s seed.
The reason that this is significant is that this is the first mention of
the virgin birth of Jesus Christ for although the seed is passed on by men it
will eventually be the seed of the woman that Jesus Christ will come
through. The verse goes on to speak of
Satan bruising the heel of our Lord, but our Lord will bruise the head of Satan.
Now as we follow the “seed” from there it goes to Adam
and Eve’s son Seth and from there it will eventually go through Abraham, and
then through Isaac, then through Jacob, then Judah, and David is a relative of
the tribe of Judah and then in the seventh chapter of second Samuel we have the
story of God telling David that the Messiah will come through him.
Back to the verses in
this psalm where we see that the blessing is upon David, and for David’s sake
the Messiah would come through his line.
Let’s look at Isaiah 55:3, “"Incline
your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to
David.’” It is God who is
speaking through Isaiah the prophet and He is speaking at the end of this verse
about the “faithful mercies shown to David,” which is what the psalmist is
speaking of in Psalm 132. It is in this
psalm that the psalmist is reminding God about His covenant with David. While listening to a sermon by John MacArthur
from the Gospel of Mark in which the topic of prayer is the subject and
MacArthur states that the first thing that we are to remember when praying for
something is to remember the history of answered prayer, and that is what the
psalmist is doing in this section when he reminds the Lord about His covenant
with David. God had not forgotten about
His covenant with David, but it was good that the psalmist did not forget about
it either. I have a book in my library
entitled “All the Promises of the Bible,” which is written by Dr. Herbert
Lockyer. The book is filled with the
promises that are found in the Bible, promises that we as believers should
know. The book has close to 350 pages in
it, so that must mean that there are a lot of promises in the Bible for us to
learn about and at times claim.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “If David’s successors wanted the
blessing of God, they needed to obey the law of God, and many of them did
not. Believers today are united with the
Lord in a new covenant that Jesus made in His own blood (Matt. 26:26-30; Heb.
12:24), and He will never break that covenant.
The psalmist used David’s name when he prayed to the Lord, but we pray
in the name of Jesus (John 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23-26). The Father is faithful to His Son, and the Son is faithful to the covenant He made in His own
blood.” When we pray in the name
of Jesus we have to realize that it has to be in the will of Jesus. We remember the prayer that Jesus prayed in
the garden, “Not my will be done, but
Your will be done,” and we can get a better idea of this, for it is not
just tacking on the name of Jesus at the end of our prayer, although that is
fine if our prayers are prayed in and for His will.
Spiritual meaning
for my life: I desire to pray things
in the name and in the will of Jesus Christ, and one of the ways that I can do
better at this is to know the promises that He has given to us in His Word.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Contentment,
and also to be transformed are two steps of faith for today. To be transformed from the inside out and by
the Word of God through the Spirit of God.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 130:1-2
1 Out of the debts I cried to You, O LORD. 2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be
attentive to the voice of my supplications.
10/29/2012 12:02:58 PM
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