SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/1/2015
9:28 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Reason for Fear PT-2b
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation 6:12-14
Message of the
verses: “12 I looked when He broke
the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars
of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken
by a great wind. 14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up,
and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.”
I was thinking last night about earthquakes and why they
happen and so I began to think about when God created the earth and when it was
all done He said that it was very good, so we can be sure that there would not
have ever been an earthquake happen, but man sinned and that changed everything
in all of the universe. When we look at
the days of creation we see that the Lord began with water and then the Holy
Spirit hovered over the earth. That is
the same concept of a chicken setting on the next in order to have the baby
chick be born. The warmth of her body
causes the fertilized egg to change into a baby chicken. The Spirit of God hovering over the unmade
earth caused the earth to begin to take shape.
It is believed that there was a canopy of water over the earth and that
there was water inside the earth for when the flood came as seen in the seventh
chapter of Genesis we read: “11 In the
six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day
of the month, on the same
day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the
sky were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and
forty nights.” We see from verse eleven that the fountains of
the great deep burst open and what I believe, and not me alone on this is that
the water that burst forth from the earth had made a cushion inside the earth
to make it more stable and since that is gone the earth is less stable and
therefore it can be affected by earthquakes.
Also we read that the “floodgates of the sky were opened” and many
believe that the canopy of water that was around the earth broke loose and the
water from that came down upon the earth.
It is also believed by many that this canopy protected those on earth
from harmful rays that we now have coming down from the sun and thus people do
not live as long now as they did before the flood. The main point I am making is about the
earthquakes we now can experience and the main problem of all of this is sin,
for that caused all of the problems we experience now as far as nature.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I can only praise
the Lord for His wisdom, mercy, and grace for the way that He prepared the
earth when He made it. No it is not the
same way it was when He created it, and it was because of sin that it is not
the same way, but we still live on a beautiful earth in spite of the curse that
is upon it and we also can be forgiven for our sins all because of God’s mercy
and grace through Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection and one day
live in the New Jerusalem which will never be effected by sin. As we enter into the celebration of what
Christ did on the cross for us take time to praise Him for His sacrifice that
was done for all those who will call upon His name and ask for forgiveness.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To love the Lord with all of my heart, soul,
mind, and strength, and to live in the love that Christ has for me on a daily
basis.
Answer to our last Bible
question: “Joseph” (Genesis 41:33-46).
Today’s Bible
question: “The books of Samuel consist
of closely related biographies for what three persons?”
Answer in our next SD.
4/1/2015 9:59 AM
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