SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/25/2019
9:49 AM
My Worship Time Focus: A Bridge
over Troubled Waters
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm 3:2
Message of the
verse: “Many
are they who say of me, "There is no help for him in
God." Selah (NKJV)
We are moving away from Ephesians
today and I want to share with you some things that I am learning as I prepare my
Sunday school lesson for this upcoming Sunday.
It comes from Psalm 3 which is a Psalm of David when his son Absalom was
trying to take the kingdom away from him.
God had not chose Absalom to take over after David, but He chose Solomon
and so this was an attempt from the evil one to destroy the promises that God
gave to David about having a king on the throne of Israel, the kings that God
would chose and eventually through the Davidic line would come the Messiah, the
Lord Jesus Christ.
David writes this psalm when there
was a battle about to take place, a battle between the forces of David, and the
forces of Solomon. David turned to the
Lord at this time, something that as a believer that we all ought to do, but
because of our enemies we fail to do so.
The following is a part of my lesson that goes along with Psalm 3 and I
hope and pray that if anyone who reads this is going through difficult times
that this will aid you.
David is going through adversity as
seen in these verses, both human adversities and as we will see adversity from
our enemy. I am sure that we as
believers go through things similar to what David is going through, oh maybe
not having one of our children trying to destroy us, but perhaps things at work
or even family issues. Donald Williams
writes the following that seems to be able to aid us if or when we go through
difficult times like David is going through.
“The bottom line of our adversity lies not simply in the strength of our
opponents but also in the charge ‘there is no help for him in God.’ Here is the threat of practical atheism. It bears so many nuances. First of all, from God’s side, practical
atheism charges that God is impersonal, at best a ‘first cause.’ He is aloof; He doesn’t care. Or God is so holy, He must be angry with
us. Or, God is unable to help; He is
weak and impotent. Second, from our
side, practical atheism laments, ‘there is no help for him in God.’ We are too evil, too faithless, too
unworthy—God certainly wouldn’t help us!
The consequences for us are clear.
The first attack is that God has abandoned us; the second attack is that
we aren’t worth His attention anyway.
The third attack is in the conclusion that we should give up our faith
in Him and turn elsewhere for help.
Thus the
skepticism of others and our own self-doubt do battle against the faith in our
hearts. As the evil in the world
explodes upon us, and as our own frailty and compromise become more and more
evident, the lie ‘there is no help for him in God’ sounds like the truth. If we are going to fight against this lie we
must remember its origin. Jesus says of Satan, ‘He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own
resources [or nature], for he is a liar and the father of it [or the father of
lies]’ (John 8:44). Our human attack
against God, therefore, is ultimately satanic in its origin. Thus Paul exhorts the Ephesians to take ‘the
shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked one’ (Eph. 6:16). This is
exactly what David does in verse 3. We
must turn from the lie to the living God.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: Trust the
Lord in troubled times, and not lean on my own understanding.
My Steps of Faith for Today: It takes
humility to trust the Lord, realizing that He is the only One to give me help
in troubled times.
Verse that goes
along with our unknown person’s quotation from yesterday is from 2 Timothy 1:7 “For
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound
mind.”
7/25/2019 10:03
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