SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/8/2018
1:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 "Understanding the Greatness of God’s Person”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
1:21-23
Message of the verses: “21 far above all
rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not
only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in
subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.”
In
today’s SD we begin to look at the last three verses from the first chapter of
the book of Ephesians. In the last few
days I have went back to a process that I have done before, and that is to
listen to sermons on the different sections of the books that I am studying in
order to have a better understanding of the text that I am looking at. Two things have happened, the first is that I
listen to them while walking on my treadmill which makes me feel better, and
two by listening to the sermons I have a better idea of what the text is
talking about.
We
have spent the last couple of days looking at the power that we have as a
believer which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ because we are in Him, and now
we want to look at His majesty which is Paul’s third request that He is praying
for believers, and as noted it is that we are to understand the “Greatness of
His Person.”
In
Paul’s pastoral letter to his son in the Lord Timothy he wrote the following to
him because he was discouraged: “8 Remember Jesus Christ,
risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, 9 for which I
suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not
imprisoned. 10 For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who
are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus
and with it eternal glory.”
What Paul is saying to Timothy is that he wants Him to remember the
greatness of the Person who lives within you.
Paul mentions that He was raised from the dead and is now seated at the
right hand of God in glory, and then he mentions that He was born of the seed
of David, as a man just like Timothy was.
He understands with us, and He also sympathizes with us.
As
believers in Jesus Christ we should all have that same focus. MacArthur adds “when we look at Him our
physical problems, psychological problems, and even spiritual problems will not
loom so all-important before us. We not
only will be better able to see our problems as they really are, but will then,
and only then, have the right motivation and power to work them out. It is sad that we read and hear so much about
the peripheral things of the Christian life and so little about the Person who
is the source of Christian life. How
much happier and more productive we are when our primary attention is on His purity,
greatness, holiness, power, and majesty.
Paul calls the Corinthians to gaze intently on His glory with the clear
vision provided in the New Covenant, and thus be made like Him by the Holy
Spirit (1 Cor. 3:18).”
I
know that this SD is a bit shorter than what I usually write, but because of it
being Saturday it will be shorter.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Goshen” (Genesis 46:34).
Today’s Bible question: “Who was Solomon’s mother?”
Answer in our next SD.
12/8/2018 2:05 PM
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