SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/29/2016 9:44 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Divine Presence
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference:
Zechariah 8:14-18
Message of the verses: “14
"For thus says the LORD of hosts, ’Just as I purposed to do harm to
you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,’ says the LORD of hosts, ’and I
have not relented, 15 so I have again
purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do
not fear! 16 ’These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one
another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates. 17 ’Also let
none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury;
for all these are what I hate,’ declares the LORD.’”
God says in
verse fourteen that He promised to do harm to their fathers, the ones who provoked
Him, and He did just that, and He did not change His mind about punishing them
either. So when we look at verse fifteen
we see that God says that He will prosper them, to do good to them, and then He
tells them not to fear. Now as we begin
to look at verse sixteen we see that the Lord tells His people the things that they
should be doing, and as we look at this list we will find that these are things
that we too should be doing. We are to
speak the truth to one another, in other words, we are not to lie, for once we
tell a lie we have to cover it up with another lie, and then this starts a
process where in the end we will not know the truth from the lies we have been
telling and actually begin to believe the lies as if they are the truth. Next I believe He is talking about the
officials for that is who meets at the gate to discuss the business of the
city, who judges cases as we saw when we studied the book of Ruth a long time
ago. Next as we move into verse
seventeen we see we are not to bring about evil plans in our minds that we
would carry them out against who we are planning to do evil to. Next God says that we are not to love
perjury, and then says that He hates all of these offences. I have to wonder how the Lord feels about the
things that are going on in our world today as all of these offenses are going
on along with many murders and other unspeakable things.
We still
have a few more verses to go in this chapter and we will try and finish it up
in our next SD. Another thing we should
learn from this section, or perhaps a couple of things is that God always keeps
His Word, and also we worship a good God.
Jesus Christ, who came as God in human flesh went around doing good as
seen in Acts 10:38.
7/29/2016 10:10 PM
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