SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/24/2014
9:59 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
God Discloses the Fate of the Kings
PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
22:10-12
Message of the
verses: We will look at the second
king whom Jeremiah is speaking of in this 22nd chapter of Jeremiah
in today’s SD.
Jehoahaz (Shallum)—Hopelessness (Jeremiah 22:10-12): “10 Do not weep for the dead or mourn for
him, But weep continually for the one who goes away; For he will never return
Or see his native land. 11 For thus says
the LORD in regard to Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king
in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place, "He
will never return there; 12 but in the
place where they led him captive, there he will die and not see this land
again.”
Jehoahaz was the son of Josiah and he ruled after his
father’s death, but only for three months as he was taken from Judah captive to
Egypt. The people mourned over this
loss, as they missed their king, but Jeremiah told the leaders that he would
not return to Judah, for he would die in Egypt. Instead of mourning for him the leaders
should have been crying out to the Lord for help, as they were looking at a
dead past or were trusting in a deposed leader.
God surely waned them to cry out to Him for help, but they were sunk
deep in their sins and would not cry out to God.
Yesterday I was listening to a message that is in a
series of messages entitled “Ten Lies About God.” The lie that was spoken of in this message
was the lie that God does not experience pain, or is not capable of experiencing
feelings. When you look at situations
like we are looking at during this time in Judah’s history we know that this
truly saddened the heart of God. Jesus,
The God man surely experienced pain and His Father also did when Jesus was
being punished upon the cross for our sins.
God took out all of our sins on His Son because of His great love for
us, but that does not mean that God the Father did not have great pain in doing
what He did in order to satisfy His wrath and justice so that we would one day
be able to come and live with Him in eternity.
It was painful to the Lord to see Judah in the situation that they were
in, but God’s justice would cause Him to remove them from the Promised Land.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I don’t want to
cause the Lord to experience pain over my sins and so I desire to live a life
that is pleasing to Him.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to see me through the things that
I will be doing today, and that what I do will be pleasing in His sight.
Memory verses for the
week: Philippians 2:5-6
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,
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Jabesh-Gilead” (1 Samuel
11:2).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who was Abraham’s nephew?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/24/2014 10:20 AM
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