SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/3/2022 10:24 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2 “Submission”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
11:29-30
Message of the verses: “29 Put on my yoke
and learn from me. For I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest
for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light’” (Philips).
Think about an unbeliever as one thinks of a
baby. A baby has neither the
understanding nor the ability to help itself, and so it is when a person comes
to Jesus Christ as the power of salvation is entirely of grace and has nothing
to do with works. A person cannot be
saved by works, but a believer does work for the cause of Christ after they
have come to know Him as Savior and Lord.
We
see in verse 29 that Jesus is gentle and humble in heart, and that He gives
rest, and not weariness to the souls of the ones who submit to Him and do His
work. Our Lord’s yoke is easy, and His
load is light. His burden is not like
that of Pharaoh, who bitterly burdened the children of Israel when they were
slaves in Israel, and also the Pharisees who burdened the Jews during Jesus’
time on earth, as they burdened the Jews with legalism.
MacArthur
writes “Christ never oppresses us or give us a burden too heavy to carry. His ‘yoke’ has nothing to do with the demands
of work or law, much less those of human tradition. The Christian’s work of obedience to Christ
is joyful and happy. ‘For,’ as John
explains, ‘this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments
are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3).”
The
fact is that submission to Jesus Christ brings the greatest liberation a person
can experience, which is actually the only true liberation he can experience,
because only through Christ is he freed to become exactly what God created him
to be.
We
close with a poem that is written by William E. Blackstone and is in the
MacArthur commentary.
“Thy
precious will, O conquering Saviour,
Doeth now
embrace and compass me
All discords
hushed, my peace a river
My soul
a poisoned bird set free.
Sweet will
of God still fold me closer,
Till I am
wholly lost in thee.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As I look at this poem that is something that
I desire to understand and follow so that Christ can work through me to do His
will in my life.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Remember the sermon on anger last night and
follow those instructions that was given in that sermon.
1/3/2022 10:44 AM
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