SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/12/2012 8:07:02 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 104 PT-3
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 104:24-35
Message of the verse: We will look at the last main section of
Psalm 104 in Today’s SD.
The Wisdom of Our God (vv. 24-35): “24
O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The
earth is full of Your possessions. 25
There is the sea, great and broad, In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great. 26 There
the ships move along, And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.
27 They all wait for You To give them
their food in due season. 28 You give to
them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
29 You hide Your face, they are
dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire And return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are
created; And You renew the face of the ground.
“31 ¶ Let the glory of the LORD endure forever; Let
the LORD be glad in His works; 32 He
looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I
live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 Let my meditation be pleasing to Him; As for
me, I shall be glad in the LORD. 35 Let
sinners be consumed from the earth And let the wicked be no more. Bless the
LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD!”
I try each
day to begin my time in prayer, and one of the things that I do in my prayer is
to praise the Lord for some of the different attributes that He possesses. One of them is His wisdom, for God is all
wise, and when you think of the creation of the entire universe including the
earth without His wisdom that could not have been completed. However when you think about salvation
through the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
could not have been accomplished without the wisdom of God, and so we will look
at a portion of God’s wisdom from Psalm 104 today as it relates to creation and
the sustaining of the earth.
Dr. Wiersbe
begins his commentary with these words, “Whether we study invisible microscopic
life, visible plant and animal life, human life, or the myriad of things that
have no live, the diversity in creation is amazing.” As we look at all of these things we can
praise the Lord for the wisdom of His creation.
When we
look at the earth today we have different seasons, we have different kinds of
animals, fish, birds, insects whereas God could have made the earth without
color and had cookie cutter animals, but He chose to have a beautiful
multicolored earth, with many different kinds of animals who live on it. Verse 24 speaks of God’s works, and that they
are done by His wisdom.
“Charge
them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in
uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to
enjoy.” This is 1Tim. 6:17 and in this
verse we are to enjoy the things that God has given to us, and employ it
wisely.
As
believers in Jesus Christ we are to be responsible in caring for the earth, and
so we should desire to do this even before it has become popular because of
creed in today’s world.
In verse 25
we see the sea monsters playing in the sea, and other animals on the earth
doing the same thing as God has made them to do. These sea monsters even play with the ships
as they said on the sea as verse 26 tells us.
It reminds me of seeing the dolphins swimming alongside the great ships
as they said on the sea. We see in verse
27 that it was because of God’s wisdom in creating the earth that He provides
food for the animals, and He has also provided food for us too. Think about planting seeds in the ground and
with the proper amount of water these seeds will turn into plants that produce
more of the same kind of food. You plant
corn you get corn, you plant and apple seed you get an apple tree that produces
apples all because of the wisdom of God.
I see in
verses 28-30 the process of humans living and then dying, coming from dust as
Adam did and then returning to dust as all men do when they die. We even see
God’s wisdom in this process.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes, “Knowing all this about God and His creation, we have some serious
responsibilities to fulfill, and the first is glorifying the Lord (vv. 31-32).
Beginning with our own bodies and minds, our abilities and
possessions, we must gratefully accept all He has graciously given us and use
it to glorify Him, not to pleas ourselves (Rom. 12:1-2; 1 Cor. 4:7) “For who
regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you
did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?” Second, we
must praise the Lord, the Creator.
What a marvelous gif is His creation! We need to get back to singing the
great hymns and paraphrases of the psalms that exalt God the Creator. The more we thank God, the less we will
exploit His gifts. Third, we should think about His creation and
rejoice it (v. 34). The study of
natural science is but ‘thinking God’s thoughts after Him.’ If earth and sky are declaring the glory of
God (19:1), we who have been saved by His grace ought to be glorifying Him even
more! Finally, we must pray for Christ’s return (v. 35), for only then will the
curse of sin be lifted from creation (Rom. 8:18-25). We must share the gospel with sinners so that
they might be able to sing with us, ‘This is my Father’s world.’”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I believe that these four things that Dr.
Wiersbe has brought to my attention is a good thing to do for it is good to
think about God the Creator and praise Him for His wonderful works, for after
all we all live in the world that He created.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Continue to abide in the vine
in order to be equipped to do the works that God has or me to do.
Memory verses for the week:
2Peter 1:1-5
1.
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ,
To those who have received a faith
of the same kind as ours by the righteousness of our
God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2. Grace and peace by multiplied to you in
the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3. seeing that His divine power has
granted 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 by them we
can become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that
is in the world by lust.
5. Now for
this very reason, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence, and in your moral excellence knowledge,
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