SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/29/2013
7:53 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Blessing of a New Creation PT-1
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
65:1-7
Message
of the verses: “ 1 ¶
"I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;I
permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ’Here am I,
here am I,’ To a nation which did not call on My name. 2 "I have spread out My hands all day long
to a rebellious people, Who walk in the way which is not good, following their
own thoughts, 3 A people who continually
provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on
bricks; 4 Who sit among graves and spend
the night in secret places; Who eat swine’s flesh, And the broth of unclean
meat is in their pots. 5 "Who say,
’Keep to yourself, do not come near me, For I am holier than you!’ These are
smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day. 6 "Behold, it is written before Me, I will
not keep silent, but I will repay; I will even repay into their bosom, 7 Both their own iniquities and the iniquities
of their fathers together," says the LORD. "Because they have burned
incense on the mountains And scorned Me on the hills, Therefore I will measure
their former work into their bosom.’”
“I will not keep silent, but I will
repay; I will even repay into their bosom (Isa. 65:6). God now replies” (Warren Wiersbe) This is how Dr. Wiersbe begins this next to
last main point in this final chapter of his book “Be Comforted” his commentary
on the book of Isaiah. We began the
study of Isaiah on the second of July of this year and have been working on it most
every day with the exceptions of looking at different chapters of Daniel and a
couple of days I actually missed doing a Spiritual Diary. It is my desire to finish Isaiah in the next
three days so that we can begin the new year looking at the 11th
chapter of the book of Daniel, and then proceed to the beginning of Jeremiah,
as that will be the next book we study, along with finishing Daniel sometime in
February. I am not sure which book we
will begin looking at on a chapter a month schedule beginning in March. My thoughts are Zechariah which would take
fourteen months to complete.
In Isaiah 65:1 we read part of the
reply that God gives and that is that He will go to the Gentiles. Paul applies this verse to the Gentiles in
Romans 10:19-20, “19 But I say, surely
Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, "I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS
BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER
YOU." 20 And Isaiah is very bold
and says, "I WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK ME, I BECAME MANIFEST TO
THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR ME.’” This is
also seen, that is God going to the Gentiles in several other passages like
Luke 14:16-24 and 21:10, also Acts 28:23-31 as this divine principle is
given. We know that God did go to the
Gentiles and that is what the Church Age is all about, as few Jewish people
have been saved during this age. God is
making the Jewish people jealous by going to the Gentiles, and God did this
because of the rebellion of the Jews.
Paul writes in Romans that the Gentiles were a wild olive branch that
God grafted into the Olive tree of Israel, but then he goes on to say that if
He only grafted them into this tree that if they did not follow Him faithfully
He could remove them just as easily. The
Church Age will end at the Rapture of the Church and then God will again deal
with the nation of Israel in the last seven years of life on planet earth as we
know it. After that the Lord Jesus
Christ will return to earth with His bride, the Church and begin to rule from
Jerusalem for 1000 years. Before He
returns, and in the tribulation period Paul writes that a time will come when
all Israel will be saved.
In verses 2-7 the Lord will describe
the sins of His people that kept Him from answering their prayers, something we
looked at in an earlier SD. The sins of
Israel are well documented in different sections of the OT, and I am referring
to the sins that caused them to be taken out of their land and taken into the
land of Babylon. Both Daniel and
Nehemiah listed these sins, confessing them to the Lord in Nehemiah nine and
Daniel nine. We also see them listed in
this section of Isaiah. I for one would
not like to have my sins listed in the Word of God, but God did this to show us
things that we should not do.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Learn
from the sins that Israel committed so I don’t do the same, and learn from the
sins I commit so that I don’t do them again.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Sin is very
serious so take it that way.
Answer
in our last SD. “Shepherds and wise men.” Both of these people are seen during the
early life of our Lord, but the wise men did not come until He was about two
years old, and then after that they left for Egypt to get away from Herod.
Today’s
Bible Question: “Who said, ‘For the
child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition?’”
Answer
in our next SD.
12/29/2013
8:24 AM
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