SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/2/2021 8:45 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “Jesus Was
Available”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 9:19
Message of the verse: “19 Jesus got up
and began to follow him, and so did His disciples.”
We
can see from this verse that Jesus was both available as well as accessible as
He responds to the problem with Jairus’s daughter by following Jairus to his
house. Think about this for a moment,
that is if anyone else but Jesus, what would they have done? Well they may have gone to his house to mourn
with him over the loss of his daughter, but go there to raise his daughter from
the dead, only Jesus could do this.
Another thing we can see which makes Jesus more accessible and available
is that He could have just spoken and his daughter would have come back to live
again, but Jesus went with him. This
demonstrates a self-giving love and compassion of Jesus. The verse says that Jesus “rose and began to
follow,” so it must have meant that He was sitting down when Jairus came to
Him. This tells us that Jesus was
willing to be interrupted and to go out of His way to serve others in His
Father’s name. We have to believe that
there were many other sick and needy people in this area, but the need of the
moment demanded that He go with Jairus.
MacArthur
writes “In somewhat similar fashion, in the midst of a highly fruitful ministry
in Samaria, the Lord sent an angel to Philip saying, ‘Arise and go south to the
road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza’ (Acts. 8:26). As soon as Philip
arrived there, he met ‘an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen
of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to
Jerusalem to worship (v. 2 7). When the
Holy Spirit told Philip to join the Ethiopian, Philip found an eager inquirer
about God and proceeded to lead the man to faith in Jesus Christ (vv.
35-37). As soon as the new believer was
baptized, ‘the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and…Philip found
himself at Azotus’ many miles away (vv. 39-40).”
It
is true that not only is God sensitive to the needs of the multitude but to the
cry of an individual as He sometimes leads His servants, as He often led His
own Son, to temporarily put a seemingly larger ministry aside in order to
concentrate on one person, and that is something that is very wonderful that
our Lord does. Here is a promise that
the Lord makes certain will happen “the one who comes to Me I will certainly
not cast out” as seen in John 6:37. We
can see from our text that Jairus was the one who came to Him.
Coming
along with Jesus to the house of Jairus were His disciples along with a great
multitude as seen in Mark’s gospel writing (5:24).
Spiritual meaning for my life today: To be thankful that when I called upon the
Lord for salvation that He did not cast me away.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I continue to trust the Lord to bring the
people to our revival prayer meeting this evening that He desires to be
there. 6/2/2021 9:06 AM
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