SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/24/2021 8:01 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “Intro to Matthew 10:24-31”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
10:24-31
Message of the verse: “24 “A disciple is
not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master. 25 “It is enough for the
disciple that he become as his teacher, and the slave as his master. If they
have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his
household! 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. 28 “And do not fear those who kill the body,
but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell. 29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet
not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 “But the
very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 “Therefore do not fear; you are of
more value than many sparrows.”
The
following is the quotation from MacArthur’s commentary from Jonathan Edwards,
the great preacher and theologian whom God used to bring revival to colonial
America.
“I claim no right to myself,
no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in
me. Neither do I have any right to this
body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not
retained anything on my own. I have been
to God this morning and told Him I have given myself wholly to Him, I have
given every power so that for the future I claim no right to myself in any
respect. I have expressly promised Him,
for by His grace I will not fail. I take
Him as my whole portion and felicity, looking upon nothing else as any part of
my happiness. His law is the constant
rule of my obedience. I will fight with
all my might against the world, the flesh and the devil to the end of my
life. I will adhere to the faith of the
gospel however hazardous and difficult the profession and practice of it may
be. I pray God for the sake of others to
look on this as self-dedication.
Henceforth, I am not to act in any respect as my own. I shall act as my own if I ever make use of
any of my powers to do anything that is not to the glory of God or to fail to
make the glorifying of Him my whole and entire business. If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I
am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely
to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust
myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am
in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s. But I purpose to be absolutely His.”
Now as I look at this quotation from Edwards and think
about it, all I can say is that I am blown away because I know that this man
was the one that God used to bring about a great revival in our land before we
became a country as the revival was greatly necessary to happen right before
the Revolutionary War. Another would
come right before the Civil War, and I pray that in God’s mercy and grace that
another one will come to our land before the Rapture of the Church which I pray
is not far off.
10/24/2021 8:33 AM
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