SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/4/2014
8:29 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Ignoring God’s Warnings PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
13:12-14
Message
of the verses: We are looking at the
third sub-point from Warren Wiersbe’s outline which is a part of eight vivid
images that depict the judgment that was about to fall upon Judah.
The Staggering Drunkards
(Jeremiah 13:12-14): “12 "Therefore you are to speak this word to them,
’Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jug is to be filled with
wine."’ And when they say to you, ’Do we not very well know that every jug
is to be filled with wine?’ 13 then say
to them, ’Thus says the
LORD, "Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this
land-the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem-with drunkenness! 14 “I will dash them against
each other, both the fathers and the sons together," declares the LORD.
"I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to
destroy them.’”
We will begin again with an endnote
from Warren Wiersbe that helps us to better understand the proverb that we see
in verse fourteen: “The proverb speaks
of wineskins, but the Hebrew word means ‘wine jars.’ The image in Jeremiah 13:14 is that of jars
being dashed together and broken. The
prophets used familiar sayings as spring boards for teaching God’s truth (see
Jeremiah 17:11; 31:9; Ezekiel 18:2).”
What we will learn from this section
of Scripture, which is a proverb is that Jeremiah is actually talking about the
leaders of the nation, the priests, the false prophets, getting drunk and
neglecting their job as spokesmen from the Lord who were suppose to teach the
people of God truth from His Word. Dr.
Wiersbe writes “The leaders and the people of Jerusalem were filling their jars
with wine, preparing for a party, but God would fill them with a drunkenness
that would lead to shameful defeat and painful destruction. They would crash into one another and destroy
one another like clay pots smashed in a siege.”
Let us now look at some verses from the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians
which illustrates the same thing, but is given to the church: “1 Now as to the times and the epochs,
brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. 2 For you
yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief
in the night. 3 While they
are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them
suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like
a thief; 5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night
nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep do their
sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8 But
since we are of the day, let
us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a
helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God
has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord
Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, so
that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just
as you also are doing.” As we closely examine
verse three in this passage we will see that this was exactly what the people
in Jeremiah’s day were doing, for the false prophets and priests were telling
everyone that God would not destroy Jerusalem, but they were wrong and He did
exactly that.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: One of the attributes of God is that He is sovereign,
He will do exactly what He wants to do, and so it is not good to be so full of
pride to determine what the Lord is going to do in certain situations.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the
Lord to do the things in my life that will bring me closer to Him, and thus
bring glory to Him.
Memory
verses for the week: Philippians 2:5-8
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. 8 Being
found in appearance of as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the
point of death, even death on a cross.
Answer
to yesterday’s Bible question: “Peter”
(Acts 8:20).
Today’s
Bible question: “Saul destroyed what
people because of Samuel’s command?”
Answer
in our next SD.
3/4/2014
9:00 AM
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