SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/16/2016 10:26 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
God’s People Will Rejoice
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zephaniah 3:14-17
Message of the verses: “14 Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Shout
in triumph, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of
Jerusalem! 15 The LORD has taken away His judgments against you, He has cleared
away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; You will
fear disaster no more. 16 In
that day it will be said to Jerusalem: "Do not be afraid, O Zion;
Do not let your hands fall limp. 17 “The LORD your God is in your midst, A
victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His
love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.”
We have to
begin with what Dr. Wiersbe has to say about this section of Scripture, He
writes: “This is one of the most
poignant passages in Scripture. It
depicts the Lord as a loving mother, singing over her children and finding joy
in their presence. The people of God sing
and shout because of all that God has done for them. He has taken away their punishment, defeated
their enemies, and come to dwell with them.
Furthermore, He has guaranteed that the people of Israel will never
again be afraid. Because the Lord is the
King of Israel, His people have nothing to fear.”
Think back
to what John writes in John 19:15 “So they cried out, "Away with Him, away
with Him, crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your
King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar.’” Now what we read in the passage above is that
they will worship our Lord Jesus Christ as they will realize that He truly is
their King as we read in Philippians 2:9-11 “9
For this reason also, God
highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every
name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW,
of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.”
The Jews at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom will realize that
Jesus Christ is their Messiah and also their Lord and will worship Him, but
Paul writes that everyone will realize that Jesus Christ is Lord and all will
bow down and worship Him. The choice
everyone has is whether or not they want to bow the knee before Him as Lord and
Savior before they die or after they die.
The choice is yours.
Dr. Wiersbe
concludes “Our God is a ‘singing’ God.
God the Father sings to the Jewish remnant entering the kingdom (v.
17). God the Son sang at the close of
the Passover Feast, and then went to the garden to pray (Matt. 26:30). He also sang after His triumphant resurrection
from the dead (Ps. 22:22; Heb 2:12). God
the Spirit sings today through the hearts and lips of Christians who praise God
in the Spirit (Eph. 5:18-21).” Once you
become a new creation in Jesus Christ you have a great desire to sing your
praises to Him.
3/16/2016
10:45 PM
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