SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/22/2019
11:03 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “The Grace
of God seen in the Descendants of Two Men”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 1:1
Message of the
verse: “1 The
record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of
Abraham:”
Just a reminder that we mentioned in
an earlier SD: ““The graciousness of this King and
of the God who sent Him can be seen in the genealogy of four places and
ways. We will look at these in logical, rather than chronological
order.” So with that said
we go back to the very first verse in the New Testament, “Matthew 1:1).
God can only use sinners in His plan
to have His will accomplished, and so each and every person in the genealogy of
Jesus Christ as seen in both Matthew and Luke are sinners, and that includes
Mary as we learned in our last SD.
We can read about the sins of David
in the Old Testament which were many including adultery and murder, and also
the numbering of the children of Israel because of his pride, and also because
he did not do what Charles Stanley calls “CMB, a critical moment of decision.” Stanley is talking about what a believer does
when Satan shoots his fiery arrows at us.
We can either add to those flaming arrows or we can reject them and
those first moments that they are shot at us.
David failed in his “CMB) as many of us do.
When we think about Abraham, a man
of great faith he twice lied about Sarah being his wife, and one of the other
things that he did we still are paying for today and that was when he brought a
hand maid back for his wife who ended up having a child by Abraham which
brought forth the twelve tribes of the Arabs.
I have to say at this point that I would not like to have my sins plastered
all over the Old Testament like Abraham and David have. What we see in the lives of Abraham and David
and others is the grace of God intervening in their lives.
We will conclude this short SD with
a quote from John MacArthur: “A careful
look at the descendants both of Abraham and David (vv. 2-16) reveals people who
were often characterized by unfaithfulness, immorality, idolatry, and
apostasy. But God’s dealing with them
was always characterized by grace. ‘Jesus
Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham,’ was sent to overcome the
failures of both those men and all their descendants, and to accomplish what
they could never have accomplished. The
King of grace came through the line of two sinful men.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I desire
to give thanks to the Lord of Grace who has caused me to be born-again into His
family, me a sinful man.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Being
born-again into the family of God has to be about humility on my part as I
accept what Christ has done for me, not being able to do anything on my own to
care for this worst problem that I have.
Today’s
quotation from “Love in Action” comes from Genesis 2:21-25
And the Lord God caused
a deep sleep to fall on
Adam,
and he slept; and He took
one of his
ribs, and closed up the
flesh in its place.
Then the rib which the
Lord God had taken from
man He made into a woman,
and He brought her to the
man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones
and flesh
of my flesh; she shall
called Woman [isha], because she
was taken out of Man
[ish].” Therefore a man shall
leave his father and
mother and be joined to his
wife, and they shall
become one flesh. And
they were both naked, the man
and his wife,
and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:21-25
11/22/2019
11:42 AM
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