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.
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