SPIRITIUAL DIARY FOR 11/12/2012
8:15:59 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 135
PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Psalm 135:13-21
Message of
the verses: The Lord Is the True and Living God—He Cares
for Us (vv. 15-18): “15 ¶ The idols of the nations are but silver and
gold, The work of man’s hands. 16 They
have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see; 17 They have ears, but they do not hear, Nor is
there any breath at all in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them, Yes, everyone who trusts
in them.”
The verses above are almost the same from Psalm
115:4-8. When commenting on Psalm 115 I
quoted Warren Wiersbe and would like to also use that quote for this section of
Psalm 135: “But the greatest tragedy is not what the idols cannot do but what
they can do to the people who worship them.
We become like the God we worship.
As we worship the true and living God, He transforms our ears to hear
His truth and the cries of those in need.
He give us eyes to see His Word and His world and the path He wants us
to walk. Our ‘spiritual senses’ develop
and we become more mature in Jesus Christ (Heb. 5:10-14). But those who worship false gods loose the
use of their spiritual senses and become blind to the light and deaf to God’s
voice.”
At the beginning of this psalm we mentioned that the
psalmist took different parts of Scripture to write this psalm. We see in this part of Psalm 135 that the
psalmist writes about worthless idols, idols that are made by man that have
eyes, but cannot see, ears but cannot speak, noses, but cannot breathe and so
we wonder why these people who make them or buy them have so little sense to
worship them. The answer to that
question is that they are blinded because of their sin and as Paul writes in
Romans 1:22 Professing to be wise, they
became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory
of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of
birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.” We see in this section of Romans one from
verses 19-32 a series of judgments that come from the Lord to those who fall
into these things that Paul writes about.
The person or nation becomes blinded by their sin and then we see the
phrase “God gave them over” and then talks about a specific sin that He is
giving them over to. Idol worship is
mentioned here along with sins of sexual depravity, homosexual sins, and then
at the end of the list Paul writes these words, “and although they know the
ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but
also give hearty approval to those who practice them.” There is one more sin that is added to this
list of a failing nation and that is the cursing of the people of Israel which
is spoken about in Genesis 12:1-3, “1 ¶
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from
your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the
earth will be blessed.’” God is saying
to Abraham here that the people or nations who bless Israel will be blessed by
God, and the people that curse Israel just because of who they are will be
cursed by God.
In a message given before the 2012 election Dr. John
MacArthur states that during the democratic convention that the democratic
party put into their platform all of the curses that are found in Romans
1:19-32, and then this nation went out and elected a democratic president. Dose this show were we are as a nation?
The Lord Be Praised—He Is with Us (vv. 19-21): 19 O house of Israel, bless the LORD; O house of
Aaron, bless the LORD; 20 O house of
Levi, bless the LORD; You who revere the LORD, bless the LORD. 21 Blessed be the LORD from Zion, Who dwells in
Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!”
There has never been a nation who has had the God of
heaven dwell with them like the nation of Israel. God was with them from the time He began their
nation as He called out Abram and Sarah and led them to the Promised Land and
gave them a miraculous child, Isaac. He
was with them when they went down to Egypt and live there in bondage for 400 years
and then He brought them out with a strong hand by doing ten miracles
destroying the so called gods of Egypt.
When the tabernacle was built God’s glory rested in the holy of holies
and led Israel through the desert for forty years and then continued to rest in
the tabernacle until the temple was built by Solomon where the glory of the
Lord filled the temple. We read in the
book of Ezekiel that the glory of the Lord left the temple and was not present
in the second temple like the first. The
second temple was actually better because the second person of the trinity,
Jesus Christ went into this temple when He came to earth. Now we see the glory of the Lord in the
presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church that is in all true believers. This enable the believers to praise the Lord
in a way that will please Him, but there is coming a day when the Lord Jesus
will return to planet earth and will sit on David’s throne in Jerusalem and
rule over all the earth from there for 1000 years. This is something well worthy of praising the
Lord about.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I read in the
book of 1Thesolonians these words, “in everything give thanks; for this is
God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” As
I see the difficulty that is facing the nation that I live in I can take
comfort that God is in control, and that God will care for His Church as He
promised to and that in all of this I can give thanks to the Lord as I praise
Him.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to be taught contentment from the Lord
and continue to seek to have my mind transformed by the Word of God.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 130:1-4
1 Out of the debts I cried to You, O LORD. 2 Lord hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications. 3 If You, Lord, should
mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness in you, that you may be feared.
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