SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/28/2012
7:28:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 132
PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm 132:6-9
Message of
the verses: We will continue to look at Psalm 132 in
Today’s SD. Dr. Wiersbe wrote the
following at the end of his introductory commentary, “The completion of the
temple was no assurance of God’s blessing on Israel, for the important thing
was that the people fulfill their responsibilities toward the Lord.” We looked at the first responsibility in
yesterdays SD.
Express to God Your Joyful Worship (vv. 6-9)
“6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah, We found
it in the field of Jaar. 7 Let us go
into His dwelling place; Let us worship at His footstool. 8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and
the ark of Your strength. 9 Let Your
priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your godly ones sing for joy.”
I wrote in yesterday’s SD a
limited history of the Ark of the Covenant, but it has always been a mystery to
me as to what happen to the Tabernacle itself, for it seems the last time we
saw it in Shiloh where the wicked sons of Eli “ministered” until they decided to take it out to be a good
luck charm in a battle with the Philistines and then the Ark was lost for a
short time. At any rate when the temple
was built by Solomon we read that there were new articles built to go with it
that were like the ones that were in the tabernacle that was built in the wilderness. Things like the lampstands, the brazen altar,
and things like that.
It seems like the children
of Israel had almost forgotten about the Ark while it was at the house of
Abinadad who lived just eight miles from Jerusalem at Kirjath Jearim (city of
woods). It may have been that the people
of Bethlehem encouraged David to go and bring the Ark to Jerusalem, where it
also seems that David was very much a desire to do so as he had prepared a tent
for it in Jerusalem where he would go to worship the Lord. We also know that once Solomon built the
temple that the Glory of the Lord moved into the temple in a similar way that
He had done in the tabernacle in the wilderness once it was completed and this
must have been some kind of a sight to see.
However we as believers have the Spirit of God living in our hearts and
so that makes us the temple of the Holy Spirit so we do not have to go to
Jerusalem and be in a temple in order to worship the Lord.
Charles H. Spurgeon writes
the following about “His footstool,” The
Lord’s "footstool" here
mentioned was either the Ark of the Testimony itself, or the place at least
where it stood, called Debir, or the Holy of Holies, towards which the Jews in
their temple used to worship. The very next words argue so much: "Arise, O
LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength"; and it is plain
out of #1Ch 28:2, where David saith concerning his purpose to have built God an
house, "I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the
covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God," where the
conjunction and is exegetical, and the same with that is. According to this
expression the prophet Jeremy also, in the beginning of the second of his
Lamentations, bewailed that "the Lord had cast down the beauty of
Israel" (that is, his glorious Temple), "and remembered not his
footstool" (that is, the Ark of the Covenant), "in the day of his
wrath"; as #Isa 60:7 64:11 Ps 96:6.”
Dr. Wiersbe points out “That
the statement in verse eight is taken from Numbers 10:33-36 and reminded the
worshipers of God guidance and power exhibited in the days of Moses.
As we look at the prayer in
verse nine we see the answer in verse 16, “"Her priests also I will clothe
with salvation, And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.’”
After many years of
wondering around the wilderness and the nation of Israel the Lord could now
rest in a temple built for Him in Jerusalem.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: As I read Psalms
120-134, the psalms of ascent, I realize how much time and effort that it took
the Jews to worship the Lord at His temple.
I am happy that I do not have to go through this in order to worship the
Lord, but I am also at times disappointed in myself to think that far too many
times that I don’t take advantage of the fact that the Holy Spirit lives in me
and that I can worship the Lord at any time in any place. D. L. Moody wrote after hearing a preacher
state “The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and
in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.” Moody then thought to himself, “He said ‘a
man.’ He did not say a great man, nor a
learned man, nor a rich man, nor a wise man, nor an eloquent man, nor a smart
man, but simply ‘a man.’ I am a man, and
it lies with the man himself whether he will or will not make that entire and
full consecration. I will try my
uttermost to be that man.” Well we know
the history of what Moody did as he was a great man of God, and to this very
day there are people working around the entire world that are still affected by
D. L. Moody because he answered the call of God, and because he chose to be “that
man.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: It is my desire to be “TRANSFORMED” by the
Lord from the inside out by the renewing of my mind through the Word of God.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 130:1-2
1 Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. 2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be
attentive To the voice of my supplications. 10/28/2012 8:28:55 AM
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