SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/3/2017
7:20 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 Servant
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 3:13a
Message of the
verse: “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has
glorified His servant”
In our last SD we looked at a passage from the end of
Isaiah 52 and all of 53 that spoke of our Lord Jesus Christ as being the
suffering Messiah and servant, and today I promised we would look at some more
verses that speak of Jesus as our Messiah who is also identified as being the
servant.
In the book of Matthew he identifies Jesus as the Servant
of Isaiah’s prophecy found in Matthew 12:18-21 as he quotes from Isaiah 42:1-4
and applies it to our Lord:
“18 “BEHOLD, MY SERVANT WHOM
I HAVE CHOSEN; MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL is WELL-PLEASED; I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT
UPON HIM, AND HE SHALL PROCLAIM JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES. 19 “HE WILL NOT
QUARREL, NOR CRY OUT; NOR WILL ANYONE HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS. 20 "A BATTERED REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF,
AND A SMOLDERING WICK HE WILL NOT PUT OUT, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY. 21
“AND IN HIS NAME THE GENTILES WILL HOPE."”
John MacArthur writes: Jesus said Himself, ‘The Son of Man did not
come to be served, but to serve’ (Matt. 20:28).
In John 6:38 He said, ‘I have come down from heaven, not to do My own
will, but the will of Him who sent Me.’
In John 8:28 He added, ‘I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak
these things as the Father taught Me.’ John
13:1-7 gives a beautiful example of our Lord’s humble service:
“1 Now before the Feast of
the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of
this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved
them to the end. 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart
of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the
Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God
and was going back to God, 4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments;
and taking a towel, He girded Himself. 5 Then He poured water into the basin,
and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with
which He was girded. 6 So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord,
do You wash my feet?" 7 Jesus
answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will
understand hereafter."”
“When His suffering was over, God ‘glorified’ Jesus,
exalting Him to the position of honor at His right hand (Acts 2:33; 5:31; Phil.
2:9-11; Heb. 7:26).
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: The example that Jesus gave to me is
something that only by the grace of God will I be able to follow, that is being
a servant, suffering and then receive His glory as John writes about in the 17th
chapter of his gospel.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust that the Lord will bless my efforts for
my Sunday school class this morning.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “By striking the rock” (Exodus
17:6).
Today’s Bible
question: “In what place was there a
door opened for Paul?”
Answer in our next SD.
9/3/2017 7:38 AM
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