SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/2/2013
11:42 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Wisdom’s
Call to True Wealth PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Proverbs 8:22-36
Message of the
verses: We will look at the last two
sub-points in today’s SD.
You can see My
works” (vv.22-31): “22 ¶ "The LORD possessed me at the beginning
of His way, Before His works of old. 23
"From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the
earliest times of the earth. 24
"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no
springs abounding with water. 25
"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought
forth; 26 While He had not yet made the
earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world. 27 "When He established the heavens, I was
there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, 28 When He made firm the skies above, When the
springs of the deep became fixed, 29
When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not
transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
30 Then I was beside Him, as a master
workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, 31 Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having
my delight in the sons of men.”
As I began to read over this section, and have read over
it on different occasions the thought came to me that I wonder if this section
is speaking of Jesus Christ. There were
reasons that I thought it was and reasons that I thought it did not. Dr. Wiersbe writes the following “While it isn’t a description of Jesus Christ, for
the eternal Son of God was never created, it does foreshadow Christ as the
creative Word that brought everything into being (John 1:1-4); Col 2:3). All I can say is that while walking on my
treadmill this morning I was watching a sermon that John MacArthur gave a few
weeks ago and his sermon was from John 1:1-14 and He also mentioned Col.
2:3. My question is not answered.
I have also mentioned that I am reading a book by A. W.
Tozer entitled “The Knowledge of the Holy,” which has to do with the attributes
of God, and of course one of God’s attributes is wisdom, and one of the great
ways that we can see God’s wisdom is in the creation of the world along with
all the universe. We can look at things
like computers, and cars and think of all the wisdom that it took to invent and
reinvent things like this, but that is nothing compared to God’s wisdom in
creating and sustaining the universe.
Solomon speaks of this in this paragraph talking about things like the creation
of the world and part of that creation was keeping the water in the seas and
stopping where God wanted it to stop.
Think about the moon and what the moon has to do with the tides of the
oceans and how it can be figured out when the high and low tides will
happen. Think about when the sun comes
up and goes down and this too can be seen far off into the future because God
is in control of it. All of these things
demonstrate God’s attribute of wisdom.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes this section with these words, “When
we belong to Jesus Christ and walk in His wisdom, all of creation works for us;
if we rebel against His wisdom and will, things start to work against us, as
Jonah discovered when he tried to run away from God.”
“You must make a
decision!” (vv. 32-36): “32 ¶ "Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,
For blessed are they who keep my ways. 33
"Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it. 34 "Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts. 35 "For he who finds me finds life And
obtains favor from the LORD. 36
"But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me
love death.’”
I want to compare Proverbs 8:35-36 with John 3:36, “35 "For he who finds me finds life And
obtains favor from the LORD. 36
"But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me
love death.’” ‘”He who believes in the
Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but
the wrath of God abides on him.’”
As we look at these verses from Proverbs and from the
Gospel of John we see that there is a decision to be made, a decision that will
result between life and death, heaven and hell.
There are no grey areas only black and white, your either believe that
Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life and that no one can come to the
Father but through Him because of His work that He did on the cross or you
reject Him and the work that He did on the cross for you and perish. “11 ¶ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who
sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was
found for them. 12 And I saw the dead,
the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and
another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged
from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which
were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they
were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the
lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in
the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire (Rev. 20:11-15).”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: God’s wisdom is
not only seen in creation, but in salvation.
The Bible says that the wages of sin is death, and that Jesus Christ
died for the payment of sin, a payment that no man could have given in the way
that Jesus Christ did, for He is the perfect Son of God, born of a virgin so that
the sin nature was not passed on to Him as Genesis 3:15 foretold. What wonderful wisdom is seen in all of this.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
Trust that the Holy Spirit will bring
people into my lives that He has prepared to hear the truth of the Gospel.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 121:1-3
1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where
shall my help come? 2 My help comes from
the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 3
He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.
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