SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/5/2014
8:40 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Ignoring God’s Warnings PT-4
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
13:15-16
Message
of the verses: In today’s SD we will
be looking at the fourth vivid image that depicts the judgment that is about to
fall on Judah.
The Stumbling Traveler (Jeremiah
13:15-16):
“15 Listen and give
heed, do not be haughty, For the LORD has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God,
Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darkness, And turns it
into gloom.”
Jeremiah stands in front of the
people of Judah, perhaps in Jerusalem, and tells them to listen to what the
Lord has to say to them through Jeremiah, and he tells them not to be haughty. I think that we can understand this word “haughty”
by looking at Romans 12:3 “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone
among you not to think
more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to
have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.” The people that Jeremiah was speaking to did
think more highly of themselves than they should have thought for they were
listening to the words of the corrupt priests and the false prophets who were
speaking lies to them saying that God would not destroy Jerusalem for it was
His city and also because His temple was there.
Their haughtiness got them in a lot of trouble as Jeremiah explains to
them that they were like a traveler who was on a mountain path in the dark with
no direction and darkness was fast approaching and all they were looking for
was the dawn, but they would not find it.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “If we reject
God’s light, nothing remains but darkness.”
They had rejected God’s light and so darkness was soon coming to them.
Jeremiah may have been thinking on
the history of Israel when God called
them out of Egypt and God protected them for forty years in the wilderness by
being a cloud to protect them from the heat of the day and a fire to keep them
warm at night, but not because they had rejected the light God would send them
darkness. Jesus said in John 8:12 “Then
Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who
follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.’” When we think of light we think of being able
to see, but light is power for it takes power to produce light and Jesus is all
powerful and Jesus is glorious, for He is brighter than any star that was ever
made by Him. This is what they rejected.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I have
not rejected the Light of the world, but I still need the Lord to illuminate my
path every day so that I can go onto the path that He wants me to go on.
My Steps of Faith for Today: “Your word
is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path Psalm 119:105.”
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 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: “Amalekites”
(1 Samuel 13:1-3).
Today’s
Bible question: “Who was sent to Rome as a prisoner?”
Answer
in our next SD.
3/5/2014
9:08 AM
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