SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/2/2019
9:42 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “The
Consequence Toward Fellow Believers:
Submission”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:21
Message of the
verse: “21
and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.”
I promised in our last SD that today’s
SD will be very short. We are in the
process of finishing the outline from John MacArthur’s 20th chapter
entitled “Be Filled with the Spirit—part 2,” and looking at the very short 21st
verse in this 5th chapter of Ephesians.
I have mentioned that one of the
things that I believe that the Lord desires me to work on this year is humility
and one of the huge things that I have learned about this subject is that a
humble person is a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit, the subject that
we have been looking at since the 9th of July, and will finish
today.
Because the commentary from
MacArthur’s commentary on Ephesians 5:21 is only two paragraphs I will just
take the time to quote it and then give a few comments on my own.
“The filling and control of the Holy
Spirit will lead us to a spirit of humility, to the spirit that gives us the
desire to seek the welfare of others before our own and to be mutually
submissive. The rich details of this
verse will be discussed in the next chapter, since the verse provides a
transition to the coming section.
“In the rest of chapter 5 and
through 6:9, Paul expands on the principle of believer’s submission as it
controls the relationship of husbands and wives, children and parents, and
slaves and masters.”
According to this quote and looking
ahead at the next chapter in MacArthur’s commentary we will be looking at a
number of things that will come out of this 21st verse of Ephesians
chapter 5. He entitles the 21st
chapter “The Necessary Foundation,” and Lord willing we will begin to look at
this section in our next SD.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: There is
a lot of having my toes stepped on as we go through this section of Ephesians
chapter five. I guess that the stepping
on of my toes is a part of God’s answers to becoming more humble in my walk
with the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trusting the
Lord to continue to teach me the things about being filled with the Spirit so
that my walk with the Lord will be more pleasing to Him.
Today’s verse
in response to yesterday’s quotation from Oswald Chambers is Psalm 19:7-8 “The
Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is
sure, making wise the simple; the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the
heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.”
8/2/2019 9:59
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