SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/4/2016 4:33 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
His Selflessness
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 7:18
Message of the verses: “18 “He who speaks from himself seeks his own
glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and
there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
Jesus gives
us two distinctive of a false teacher in this verse; the first is “He who
speaks of himself,” and the second is that “seeks his own glory.” Jesus did neither of these as we see in the
remainder of this verse: “but He who is
seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no
unrighteousness in Him.”
I once
heard a person talking about getting a following by preaching things that are
false and they said that this would be easy to do. I have to believe them, although this I heard
around forty years ago and was a very young believer at that time, and did not
understand fully what he was saying, but today I can understand it better, and
the reason is that unbelievers have a desire to worship something as this is in
all people who are born because God put that into them, so all you have to do
to attract them is to preach something that they want to hear and they will
come running. Joel Osteen is a prime
example of not teaching the truth and having a very large following, in fact
this verse from Micah 3:5 speaks of what he is doing “Thus says the LORD
concerning the prophets Who lead my people astray; When they have something to
bite with their teeth, They cry, "Peace," But against him who puts
nothing in their mouths They declare holy war.”
Now we will look at verse eleven “Her leaders pronounce judgment for a
bribe, Her priests instruct for a price And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on
the LORD saying, "Is not the LORD in our midst? Calamity will not come
upon us."” I think you get the
point from these verses, so we can determine that in the OT times, when Jesus
was on earth, in the NT times, from the very beginning and up until the times
we are living in that has been happening.
We know that
our Lord was different as when He came to earth it was His desire to follow the
plan of His Father, to do what He wanted Him to do and to be where He wanted
Him to be when He was to be there and so we know from that that Jesus was
seeking to do His Father’s will, and to bring glory to Him, which is what He
did. We can look at John chapter 17,
which is called “The High Priestly Prayer” and read the following “Joh
17:5 "Now, Father, glorify Me
together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world
was. Joh 17:22 "The glory which You
have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; Joh
17:24 "Father, I desire that they
also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My
glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the
world.”
John
MacArthur writes “That Jesus came seeking the glory of the One who sent Him,
instead of glorifying Himself, verified His claim to be the true Messiah, and
showed that there was no unrighteousness in Him. It is not surprising that the Jewish leaders
rejected the One who sought God’s glory, since they were those who ‘receive[d]
glory from one another…[did] not seek the glory that is from the one and only
God.’ (5:44).”
My Steps of Faith for
Today: To bring glory to my Lord, to
know Him better, and to love Him more.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Laodicea” (Colossians 4:16).
Today’s Bible question:
“Who destroyed Baal worship in Israel?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/4/2016 5:01 PM
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