SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/17/2013
11:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The
Circumstances within us
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
40:27-31
Message of the
verses: “27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and assert, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice due
me escapes the notice of my God"? 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not
become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. 29 He gives strength
to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power. 30 Though youths
grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, 31 Yet those who
wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like
eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.”
“27 Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine,
Israel, saying, "GOD has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to
me"?” (The Message) This verse as seen in The Message seems to
help me to understand what Isaiah is writing, for the people of Israel were
complaining to the Lord that He did not know what they were going through, even
though it was their sin that brought them to the point at which they were
at. Let us look at Philippians 4:13 “I
can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” In this verse we can see that we as believers
need to draw our strength from the Lord to accomplish the things that we are to
do. The children of Israel were not
doing this but drawing their strength from their own self, and this will never
work. This leads me to something that I
have thought about from time to time, and that has to do with the Judgment Seat
of Christ, which will happen when we get to heaven. Some of the things that we may think we will
be rewarded for will just burn up like wood, hay, and stubble, for I believe
that these will be the things that we try to do in our own strength, but the
things that are like gold, silver and precious jewels, things that last and
cannot be burned up will be the things we do in the power of the Holy Spirit,
things that I believe were given for us to do before the foundations of the
earth as Ephesians 2:10 speaks of, “For we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would
walk in them.”
Dr. Wiersbe writes the following about the word “renew.” “The word ‘renew’ means ‘to exchange,’ as
taking off old clothing and putting on new.
We exchange our weakness for His power (2 Cr. 12:1-10). As we wait before Him, God enables us to soar
when there is a crisis, to run when the challenges are many, and to walk
faithfully in the day-by-day demands of life.
It is much harder to walk in the ordinary pressures of life than to fly
like the eagle in the time of crisis.”
Dr. Wiersbe goes on to talk about one who is going
to take a journey of 1000 miles has to begin with one step and continue to plod
along, not running, but taking their time to finish their journey. As believers we can trust the Lord to give us
the strength we need to get us to where He wants us to go, and remember we need
to do it through His strength.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Trying to do
things on my own has never worked out for me, as I need to follow the direction
of Proverbs 3:5-6, “5 Trust in the LORD with
all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways
acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.” Knowing this is much less difficult than
doing it.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Follow the advice and direction of Proverbs
3:5-6.
Memory verses for the
week: 2 Peter 1:1-8
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 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.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “In green pastures.”
Today’s Bible
Question: “Whose bones did Moses take
with him in the exodus from Egypt?”
Answer in our next SD.
10/17/2013 1:06 PM
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