SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/20/2013
9:18 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
God’s Servant Israel PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
41:21-29
Message of the
verses: We will be looking at the
final picture in this section of Isaiah chapter 41, and that picture is of a
courtroom.
“21 “Present
your case," the LORD says. "Bring forward your strong
arguments," The King of Jacob says. 22 Let them bring forth and declare to
us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they
were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what
is coming; 23 Declare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
24 Behold, you are of no
account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an
abomination. 25 “I have aroused one from the north, and he has come; From the
rising of the sun he will call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as upon
mortar, Even as the potter treads clay." 26 Who has declared this from the
beginning, that we might know? Or from former times, that we may say, "He
is right!"? Surely there was no one who declared, Surely there was no one
who proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your words. 27 "Formerly
I said to Zion, ’Behold, here they are.’ And to Jerusalem, ’I will give a
messenger of good news.’ 28 “But when I look, there is no one, And there is no
counselor among them Who,
if I ask, can give an
answer. 29 “Behold, all of them are false; Their works are worthless,
Their molten images are wind and emptiness.”
What we have in this section is God bringing to His
courtroom the idols and He asks questions to the idols about the future and
other things, but they could not give an account for idols do not speak, do not
hear, cannot see, and surely cannot tell the future. God can do all of these things and so the
idols are found guilty because according to verse 29 they are all false and
their works are worthless.
Spiritual meaning
to my life today: We as believers do
not worship the kind of idols that the children of Israel worshiped, like idols
of wood or gold, but we do have idols, things like sports, like TV, and any
other thing that comes before the worship of our God. I am not saying that we cannot watch a
sporting event, but if we watch one that will keep us away from our church
service, then the sporting event has become more important than being at a
worship service.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
“Little children, guard yourselves from
idols.”
Memory verses for the
week: 2 Peter 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
from his former sins.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Hezekiah” (2 Kings 20:10).
Today’s Bible
Question: “Where did Paul stay during
the tie he was in Rome?”
Answer in our next SD.
10/20/2013 9:35 AM
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