SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/15/2012 8:47:17 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 105 PT-3
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 105:42-45
Message of the verses: In Today’s SD we will look at the last
section in the lengthy 105th Psalm remembering that this psalm is
talking about the history of the nation of Israel.
All Believers—God’s Dependable Promise (vv.
42-45): “41 He opened the rock and water flowed out; It
ran in the dry places like a river. 42
For He remembered His holy word With Abraham His servant; 43 And He brought forth His people with joy, His
chosen ones with a joyful shout. 44 He
gave them also the lands of the nations, That they might take possession of the
fruit of the peoples’ labor, 45 So that
they might keep His statutes And observe His laws, Praise the LORD!”
I am not
sure how many Bible Scholars believe what I am about to write, but I heard a
long time ago that there are many who believe that the rock that is spoken of
in verse 41 was carried around by Israel in their wilderness wonderings so that
it supplied water for them. I suppose
that this though does have merit because when you have at least two million
people wandering in the wilderness they had to have a source of water to
survive.
I have
mentioned earlier that Dr. Wiersbe believes that this psalm was written after
the exiles of Israel returned from Babylon and when I look at this psalm in the
way that it was written I can believe it.
I think about the books of 1st and 2nd Chronicles
and it is believed that these two books were written after the exiles returned
in order to give them a history of Israel.
In these two books you only see the history of Judah and they do not
contain all of the sinfulness that went on, but focused more on how the Lord
moved through the different peoples of Judah, especially focusing on King
David. It is in this book that we find out
that the evil King Manasseh came to know the Lord in a saving way at the end of
his life. So we see in Psalm 105 that
the psalmist leaves out all of the sinful things that happened by Israel on
their wilderness wonderings, the things that went on at Mt. Sinai, and at
Kadesh Barnes where Israel refused to enter the land and thus walked around in
the wilderness for forty years until all who were over twenty years old had
died. This psalm focuses in on God’s
great works and does not expose the great failures of man. I have to say at this point, because we are
on the subject, that the New Testament does not focus in on the sins of those
in the OT when they are mentioned because their sins have been forgiven through
Jesus Christ. When the Bible mentions
David in the NT it does not mention any of his sins or any other of the OT
saints sins.
The psalmist mentions the promise
that God made with Abraham, giving them the Promised Land, and the fact that
God kept His promise to Abraham as the people defeated the nations who were in
that land, something God told Abraham in Genesis chapter fifteen. God even told Abraham that Israel would come
out from the land that kept them captive for 400 years with many spoils.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes “God’s people live on promises, not explanations, and it is ‘through
faith and patience’ that we see these promises fulfilled (Heb. 6:12).” This is something very important to remember that
believers live on promises and not explanations. I am sure that the children of Israel who
lived in Egypt those 400 years had to believe the promise that God would send a
redeemer to remove them from Egypt, for their lives were surely very hard
during those long year and they needed hope in the Lord in order to
survive. There was not written Word at
that time from the Bible only the hope that was passed down from generation to
generation of a promise that was given to Abraham concerning his descendants by
the Lord.
Dr. Wiersbe
goes on to write “But God’s keeping His promise meant more for Israel than
victory over the enemy and the acquisition of riches. It meant accepting the responsibility of obeying the God who had been
so faithful to them. Before his
death, Joshua reminded the people what the Lord had done for them and
admonished them to serve the Lord and not turn to idols (Josh. 24:1-28). When we consider all that the Lord has done
for us, we find we have the same obligation.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: To remember all that the Lord has done for me
through the “precious and magnificent promises” that He has given to me.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: I am having a difficult time
memorizing the verses in 2Peter that I believe the Lord desires for me to
memorize, and my step of faith today is to continue to work on them until I have
them memorized in order to meditate on the great truths that are found in these
verses.
Memory Verses for the Week:
2Peter 1:1-6
1.
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ,
To those who have received a faith
of the same kind as our, by the righteous of our God
and Savior, Jesus Christ. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied
to you in the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord; 3. seeing the His divine
power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through
the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4. For
by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that you
can be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world by lust.
5. Now for
this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6. and in your knowledge
self-control, and in your self-control perseverance, and in your perseverance,
godliness,
7/15/2012 9:27:11 AM
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