SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/31/2021 8:12 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Vindication by God”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
10:26-27
Message of the verse: “26 “Therefore do
not fear them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and
hidden that will not be known. 27 “What I tell you in the darkness, speak in
the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon
the housetops.”
We
begin this SD by looking at Luke 8:16 “"Now no one after lighting a lamp
covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a
lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.’” The point is that when God gives truth to
declare, the business of Christians is to make it known, not to hide it—just as
one day God Himself will instantly and perfectly make every truth known. So in view of what is coming, it is both
faithless and shortsighted to hide the light now in order to avoid criticism
and persecution.
John
MacArthur quotes a couple of verses from Eccles. “Rejoice, young man, during
your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young
manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes.
Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.” MacArthur says that with mock encouragement
Solomon wrote these verses. “13 The
conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His
commandments, because this applies to every person.” It seems to me that
it took Solomon a long time in this book to get around to something really worth
listening to, and he did not keep it to himself.
The
person who is a disciple should have the same perspective that God’s
perspective is. In God’s eternal view He
already sees the final outcome of every life.
The one’s in the world’s eyes who seem like winners will turn out to be
losers, and those who seem to be losers will be winners.
There
should be no secrets in Christianity, that is what the Lord has, in effect,
revealed to us in the darkness we are to speak in the light; and what has been
whispered in our ear we are to proclaim upon the housetops. I have mentioned Deuteronomy 29:29 many times
in my Spiritual Diaries and in that verse Moses writes that the secret things belong
to the Lord, but then he goes on to say that what God has shown us we are to
proclaim. God has not told us
everything, but what He has told us we are to obey and proclaim.
I
will conclude this SD by quoting a paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary: “Fraternal orders and lodges that have secret
rites and ceremonies have no part in the work of Christ’s kingdom, no matter
how much they may try to defend their religious purposes and standards. All spiritual and moral truth that man needs
to know and can know, God has already fully made known; and His desire is for
that truth to be proclaimed, not hidden.
Christians are not elite defenders of man-made secrets but bold
proclaimers of God-given truth. Secrecy
has no part in the gospel.” 10/31/2021 8:33 AM
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