SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/11/2012 8:02:32 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 113 PT-2
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 113: 4-6
Message of the verses: In Today’s SD we will pick up where we left
off in the last SD that began with Psalm 113:1-3, and also we looked at three
commentators who looked at the introduction to this psalm. Dr. Wiersbe wrote at the end of his
introduction these words: “The psalm
opens and closes with hallelujah (praise Jehovah) and gives us three wonderful
reasons for praising the Lord.” We
looked at the first reason for praising the Lord in the last SD.
God’s Throne Is the Highest (vv. 4-6): “4 The
LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. 5 Who is like the LORD our God, Who is
enthroned on high, 6 Who humbles Himself
to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?”
God’s
throne is not like the thrones of earthly kings, for God’s throne is above all
nations for it is in heaven, which is above the heavens. Now that may not make a lot of sense but when
we say that God’s throne is above the heavens we are talking about the planets
and the stars that were created by God in the creation which is seen in Genesis
chapter one where the text say almost as an afterthought “He made the stars
also.” Yet there are billions upon
billions of stars and even billions upon billions of galaxies. We have learned much more about the stars in
the generation that we live in now with higher technology that we have now,
things like the Hubel Telescope, and also instruments that can listen to the
sounds that come from outer space. God’s
throne is above all of this.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes, “It is not our Lord’s transcendence that captivates the psalmist but
His willingness to ‘stoop down’ and pay attention to mere mortals who do not
always honor Him.” I should add that
hardly every honor Him. We know that most
earthly kings are not accessible to their subject, but the writer to the
Hebrews says, “Heb 4:16 Therefore let us
draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy
and find grace to help in time of need.”
When Jesus died upon the cross the curtain that separated the holy place
from the holy of holies was torn from the top to the bottom showing that all of
those who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord can now
have direct access to God, which in the OT took a priest, but all believers are
priests so that we can have access to the Lord, and the wonderful part of all
of this is that He desires us to have contact with Him.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Dr. Wiersbe writes at the end of this section
of his commendatory these words, “For the believer, God’s throne is not only a
throne of glory and authority, but it is also a throne of grace, a topic the
psalmist explained in the next three verses.”
The verse in Hebrews that was
quoted above shows to me that God’s throne is a throne of grace, and grace is a
very wonderful thing to have, for we are saved by grace through faith, which
means that we do not have to work for it and could not work for it, but it is a
gift from God so that we will not have anything to boast about.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust the Lord to work out
some problems that are affecting my life at this time.
Memory verses for the week:
2Peter 1:1-9
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 be multiplied to you in the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3
seeing that 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 by them you
may become 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 and in your godliness,
brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are
increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. For he who lacks these qualities is
blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification for his former sins.
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