SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/20/2016
8:32 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: Introduction
to Hab. 3:3-15
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Habakkuk
3:3-5
Message of
the verses: “3 God comes from Teman, And the Holy One
from Mount Paran. Selah. His
splendor covers the heavens, And the earth is full of His praise. 4 His
radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is
the hiding of His power. 5 Before Him goes pestilence, And plague comes after
Him.”
I want to cover a couple of things before we begin
our introduction. First I want to do a
very short review of what we looked at in the past three days from the first
two verses in Habakkuk chapter three.
Our theme was prayers “Pray for the Word of God” was what we were
looking at and so let us review the things Habakkuk prayed for. First “Habakkuk prayed because he was
overwhelmed by God’s splendor. Next
Habakkuk prayed because he wanted God’s work to succeed. Finally Habakkuk
prayed because He wanted God to show mercy.”
(From Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary.)
Now in today’s SD we will be looking at the second
of three main points from this final chapter of Habakkuk and I wish to quote
from Dr. Wiersbe’s second main point which he entitled “Vision: Ponder the Greatness of God” and this covers
verses 3-15 of chapter three. He
writes: “The Lord isn’t likely to give
us today a vision such as Habakkuk saw, but because it’s recorded in the Word,
we can ponder it and let the Spirit teach us from it.* God reveals His greatness in creation, in
Scripture, and in history, and if we have eyes to see, we can behold His glory.**”
I want to quote a couple of endnotes that Dr.
Wiersbe wrote to go along with this introduction message. The first one comes from the statement ending
in the first star symbol: “Writing about
his experience at the Transfiguration (2 Peter 1:15-21), the Apostle Peter
points out that the written Word is superior to glorious experiences. Only a few people can rapturous experiences,
but any believer can ponder them in the Word with the Spirit’s help. The people who had these great experiences
have died, but the Word lives on. The
memories of experiences will fade, but the Word remains the same. We now have a completed Bible, so the New
Testaments sheds light on the experiences of people like Moses, David, and the
prophets; and we can see things that perhaps they didn’t see. So, instead of saying ‘I wish I could have
that kind of experience,’ we should be asking, ‘Lord, what do You want to teach
me from this experience?’”
Next and lastly we look at the endnote associated with
the double star symbol: “These might
relations of God in history are called ‘theophanies,’ from two Greek words
meaning ‘an appearance of a God.’ For
other examples, see Psalms 18:68; and 77; and Exodus 15 and 19; and Deuteronomy
33.” 2/20/2016 8:54 PM
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