SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/24/2014
11:20 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Jeremiah
looks ahead and laments that judgment is coming
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah 10:17-22
Message of the
verses: “17 Pick up your bundle from
the ground, You who dwell under siege! 18 For thus says the LORD, "Behold,
I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land At this time, And will cause them
distress, That they may be found." 19 Woe is me, because of my injury! My
wound is incurable. But I said, "Truly this is a sickness, And I must bear
it." 20 My tent is destroyed, And all my ropes are broken; My sons have
gone from me and are no more. There is no one to stretch out my tent again Or
to set up my curtains. 21 For the shepherds have become stupid And have not
sought the LORD; Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock is
scattered. 22 The sound of a report! Behold, it comes-A great commotion out of
the land of the north-To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a haunt of
jackals.”
Jeremiah is not called the weeping prophet for nothing as
we see here that he is weeping over what is about to come upon the Jews who
live in Jerusalem and the surrounding cities.
He gives the reason as to why the Lord is going to punish His precious
people in verse twenty-one. When Jeremiah
writes the book of Lamentations he says “13 Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the
righteous (Lam. 4:13.” After the
invasion was over is when Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentations, and gives
the reason for the invasion in this verse.
Jeremiah was warning the people to pack up and leave, but
they did not listen to him, for they did not believe him, but they did believe
the false prophets. What a shame as the
people had the truth given to them by Jeremiah, but believed a lie told to them
by the false prophets and false priests.
People believe the same lies today as false teachers tell
people that they have to earn their way to heaven, or they have to do something
like being baptized or follow some rituals in order to be right with God. What they are doing is putting the cart before
the horse for the Scriptures tell us that we are to be baptized, but after we
have realized that there is nothing we can do in order to be saved on our own,
but we must confess that we are sinners, guilty before a holy God, and then
believe in our hearts that Jesus died in our place to take away our sins in
order to be saved, and then we can be baptized and then we can do good works
for the Lord as the Spirit directs us.
If we look at Ephesians 2:8-10 we can see this progression “8 For by
grace you have been saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are His
workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in
them.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Just as Jeremiah
was doing the good works for the Lord that He had planned for him to do before
he was even born, so I want to do those good works that God has called me to do
before I was born so that I can bring glory to His name.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Proverbs 3:5-6.
Memory verses for the week:
Philippians 2:5-7
5 Have this attitude in
yourself which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form
of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking on the form of
a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Your sins be forgiven you”
(Luke 5:20-21).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘fill the waterpots
with water’?”
Answer in our next SD.
2/24/2014 11:47 AM
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