SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/4/2016 7:27 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Believers
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 3:16-18
Message of the verses: “16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another,
and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written
before Him for those who
fear the LORD and
who esteem His name. 17 “They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the
day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who
serves him." 18 So
you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and
one who does not serve Him.”
We are
looking in today’s SD at the second sub-point under the main point entitled “Despising
God’s Service” from the outline in Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on Malachi.
There was a
remnant among the remnant as there were some true believers which is who
Malachi is talking about in these three remaining verses of Malachi chapter
three. As we look at verse sixteen we
see on two occasions the words that tell us that these true believers feared
the Lord and Dr. Wiersbe tells us “which means they held Him in awe and
worshiped Him as the Lord Almighty. The
met together, not to complain but to encourage and edify each other. They spoke about the Lord and they weren’t
afraid for Him to hear what they were saying.”
This was
probably a very small group but we can see that the Lord certainly noticed them
as He notices all of those who are His.
These people were not wasting their time as they worshiped the Lord, for
they were investing in eternity. They
may have even come under some persecution, but what they were doing was
worshiping and serving the Lord.
These
people were in stark contrast of the priests who were supposed to teach the
people, but they did not even know the difference between one sacrifice and
another: “the difference between the
holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the
clean (Ezekiel 44:23b).”
There may
be someone who reads this SD and they are a part of a small group of believers,
they may be discouraged thinking that nothing is getting done for the Lord, but
just as the Lord noticed this small group who were worshiping Him and
ministering to each other He is doing the same for you and your small group. Trust the Lord to show you the things that
you can do to serve Him and then do it for little becomes much when you place
it in the hands of the Lord.
12/4/2016 7:44 PM
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