SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/20/2016 11:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
And he Worshiped Him
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 9:38b
Message of the verse: “And he worshiped
Him.”
We see
after this man realized that Jesus was the Messiah, his Messiah that he began
to worship him. I want to look at a few
verses that keep to this theme: Matthew
14:33 “And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, "You are
certainly God’s Son!"” Luke 24:45,
52 “Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,” “And they, after worshiping Him, returned to
Jerusalem with great joy,” Phil. 2:10 “so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE
WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth.”
We will
conclude this SD with a quote from Charles H. Spurgeon as he summed up the joy
and delight the man must have felt at that moment. This quote is found in MacArthur’s
Commentary.
“Then,
further, he acted as a believer: for ‘he’ worshipped him.’ This proves how his faith had grown. I should like to ask you who are the people
of God when you are happiest…My happiest moments are when I am worshipping God,
really adoring the Lord Jesus Christ…It is the nearest approach to what it will
be in heaven, where, day without night, they offer perpetual adoration unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. Hence, what a memorable moment it was that
man was all idolater, a man-worshiper…If Christ was not God, we are not
Christians; we are deceived dupes, we are idolaters, as bad as the heathen whom
we now pity. It is making a man into a
God if Christ be not God. But, blessed
be his holy name, he is God; and we feel that it is the supreme delight of our
being to worship him. We cannot veil our
robe of righteousness whenever we approach him.
We cannot cover our feet with our wings, as the angels do; but we do
take his blood and his righteousness both as a covering for our feet, and as
wings with which we fly up to him; and though as yet we have no crowns to cast
at his dear feet, yet, if we have any honor, any good repute, any grace,
anything that is comely, anything that is honest, we lay it all at his feet,
and cry, ‘Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for
thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.’” (‘A
Pressed Man Yielding to Christ,’ in The
metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Vol. 46)
(Pasadena, Tex.: Pilgrim
Publications, 1977), 46:142. Italics in original.)”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Worshiping the Lord as a believer is something
that we do 24/7/365. Sometimes I suppose
I do it in a way that is not pleasing to the Lord, which surely is not the way
I want to do it.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust that the Lord will
guide me into worshiping Him in a way that is pleasing to Him.
Memory verses for the week:
(Romans 6:1-4) “1. What shall we
say then? Are we to continue in sin that
grace may increase? 2. May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in
it? 3.
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ
Jesus have been baptized into His death.
4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so
that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we
too might walk in newness of life.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Moses” (Exodus 14:13).
Today’s Bible question:
“The church in what place was told it had left its first love?”
Answer in our next SD.
7/20/2016 11:43 AM
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