SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/18/2016 7:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus: In The Predicted Manner
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 12:14-15
Message of the verses: “14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it;
as it is written, 15 “FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING,
SEATED ON A DONKEY’S COLT.’”
I suppose
that it is interesting that I am studying the book of Zechariah at the same
time that I am studying the book of John, as this OT quote comes from the book
of Zechariah right about where I have been studying it. It is interesting to look at where the OT
quotes come from and how they are originally used in the context of the
OT.
Now if one
looks at the Synoptic Gospels they will tell you how the Lord got this donkey’s
colt to ride on, one that had never been ridden before, but John does not give
us those details in his gospel. It is
possible that His disciples knew the people who owned the donkey, but we cannot
be sure of that, for all they told them was that “The Lord has need of it” and
they had no trouble in getting the donkey.
The Lord had need of the perfume that Mary put on His body to prepare
Him for burial, and the Lord had need of the blind man going to the pool to
wash off the mud He had put on his eyes, and the Lord had need of the people to
roll the stone away from the grave of Lazarus, and they did that too. The Lord allows us to do the things that we
can do for His cause, but the things we cannot do like healing a blind man’s
eyes, or raising someone from the dead He does.
Another thing interesting about this story from the Synoptic Gospels is
that His disciples brought both the donkey and her colt for they did not know
which one He would ride on.
The words “Fear
Not” were added from Isaiah 40:9 and the rest came from Zechariah 9:9 and “daughter
of Zion” is a reference to Jerusalem as seen in passages like 2 Kings 19:21;
Isa. 10:32; and Zech. 9:9. It is interesting
that if Jesus would have come as the conquering hero like He will come at His
second coming ridding on a white horse, then He would not have come ridding on
the colt of a donkey as He did in His humble way the first time He came as
Zechariah foretold that He would.
MacArthur concludes “The symbolism of His humiliation was lost on the
crowd, however, who continued to proclaim Jesus as the conquering King all the
way into the city (cf. Matt. 21:15). As Leon
Morris observes, ‘The meaning of the happenings of the life of Jesus are not
for every unregenerate man to see. They
are revealed only by the Holy Spirit of God.’”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Humility is something that I talk to the Lord
about most days in my prayer time in kind of the opposite way as I pray that I
will not be proud.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust the Lord to keep me
humble and not proud.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Elisha” (2 Kings 5:9-10).
Today’s Bible question:
“What is the first book of the Bible?”
Answer in our next SD.
9/18/2016 8:19 AM
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