SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/18/2019
8:44 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Believer’s Life Principles”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:15
Message of the
verse: “Therefore be careful how you
walk, not as unwise men, but as wise” (Eph. 5:15).
As we look at this verse we should know that the literal
meaning of the Greek term that is translated “be” is “look, or observe,” and so
that means that Paul’s command for believers to see that they “walk” carefully is based on
what he just had been teaching. We can
see this also from the word “therefore” which begins verse fifteen. Therefore refers immediately back to the
apostle’s call for believers to walk as those who have been raised from the
dead and for those who are living in Christ’s light as seen in verse 14. “14 For this reason
it says, "Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine
on you.’” John MacArthur writes “It also
reaches even further back to build upon his call for believers to be imitators
of their heavenly Father (5:1).
Christians are to walk wisely rather than unwisely because they are God’s
beloved children, saved through the sacrifice of His beloved Son (5:1-2). Only the wise walk befits the children of
God.”
We see in our verse that as
believers we are to walk as wise men.
This can be better understood by looking at the many times we see the
words “in Christ” in the letter to the Ephesians, and so since we are in Christ
we should correspond to what we are, and that includes the truth that we are
one, we are separated, we are love, we are light and we are wise.
We mentioned in our last SD about
the truth that once we are born into the family of God and become His child
that we are made wise. 2 Timothy 3:15
tells us “and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the
wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” MacArthur writes “By God’s grace, the saved ‘are
in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and
sanctification, and redemption’ (1 Cor. 1:30).
Just as in Christ God miraculously makes us immediately righteous,
sanctified, and redeemed, He also makes us immediately wise.” Let me give you an example from this wisdom
that God has given to me, something that is one of my favorite things to write
about and that is evolution. My 7th
grade Biology teacher taught some things about evolution that at the time made
sense to me, and for one thing I decided that I did not need to attend church
anymore because evolution teaches that we are an accident and that there is no
God. After I became a believer I knew
that evolution is a lie and impossible to happen, so impossible that not even
God could make evolution happen. You may
say that God can do anything, and the truth is that God can do anything as long
as it goes along with His attributes, and evolution does not fit into His
attributes so that makes it impossible for God to make it work. The point is that because of God’s wisdom
given to me I see things now in a much different light, in God’s light.
Now because when we were saved and
receive wisdom we are responsibility for our behavior. MacArthur adds “Because we are in Christ, ‘the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge’ that are hidden in Him (Col. 2:3) are
therefore also hidden in us. John wrote
of the Holy Spirit, the resident truth teacher in the life of every saint: ‘But you have an anointing from the Holy One,
and you all know. I have not written to
you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it’ (John
2:20-21). Further, he said, ‘You have no
need for anyone [any human teacher with simply human wisdom] to teach you,’
because ‘His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true’ (v. 27). We cannot have salvation without God’s wisdom
any more that we can have salvation without his righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Make sure
that I walk in the wisdom that God has given to me as is evident in the
passages we have been looking at.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Walking in
wisdom means to be walking in humility.
Today’s verse
that goes along with yesterday’s quote from Gordon Lindsay: “Lord I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark
9:24).
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