SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/31/2020
8:31 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Merit of Peace: Eternal
Sonship in the Kingdom”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 5:9
Message of the
verse: “Blessed
are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.”
We begin today to look at the final
main-section of this verse that we have been looking at since the 22nd
of this month, and perhaps I should say that the best was left for last as this
section talks about the future of all believers to be in the kingdom as the
verse ends with the peacemaker “shall be called sons of God.”
Perhaps many who read this can look
back at being a part of having a godly family having godly parents and
grandparents as this would be a part of our heritage. However the greatest human heritage cannot
ever match the believer’s heritage that is in Jesus Christ. Paul gives the reason for this in Romans 8:17
where he writes that we are “heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with
Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified
with Him.” There is nothing that compares to being a
child of God.
John MacArthur
writes: “Both huios and Teknon
(child) is a term of tender affection and endearment as well as of relationship
(see John 1:12; Eph. 5:8; 1 Peter 1:14; etc.) ‘Sons,’ however, is from huios,
which expresses the dignity and honor of the relationship of a child to his
parents. As God’s peacemaker we are
promised the glorious blessing of eternal sonship in His eternal kingdom.”
Being a peacemaker is
a characteristic of God’s children. Now
if a person is not a peacemaker he is either a person who is not a believer of
a Christian who is a disobedient Christian.
If a person who continually is disruptive, divisive, and is quarrelsome
that person has a reason to doubt his relationship with God altogether. Paul writes the following at the end of 2
Corinthians “Test
yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you
not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you-unless indeed
you fail the test?” He then goes on in the next verse to write: “But I trust that you will realize that we
ourselves do not fail the test” (2 Corinthians 13:5-6).” All of God’s children are peacemakers, and
that surely does not mean that our entire Christian life that we do not from
time to time fail in being a peacemaker, but in our overall life we have the
quality of being a peacemaker. “Only God
determines who His children are, and He has determined that they are the
humble, the penitent over sin, the gentle, the seekers of righteousness, the
merciful, the pure in heart, and the peacemakers” writes John MacArthur.
Now seeing that this is Sunday we
will end this SD here and pick up the final part of this verse in our next SD,
Lord willing.
5/31/2020 8:56
AM
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