SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/3/2022 8:21 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1
“The Worldly Hearer”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
13:22
Message of the verse: “22 "And the
one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word,
and the worry of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and
it becomes unfruitful.”
I have to say that to me, perhaps this section from
verse 22 is the one that happens to the most people, especially in our country
today. Also perhaps this can be the one that
many true believers fall prey too.
This
is the third patch of soil and this is infested with thorns and represents the
man who hears the word but who is too worldly for it to take root and grow in
his heart. This person hears the word of
the gospel, and may even make a token profession of faith, however his first
love is the things of the world, and so his worry about or his preoccupation
with those things that blinds him to the importance of the gospel or perhaps
anything else spiritual and eternal. The
problem is that he loves riches and lives as if they are the answer to all of
the needs that he has or desires. The
truth is that he is oblivious to their deceitfulness, to their utter inability
to satisfy the heart or bring lasting happiness. This man does not notice his deceiving
worldliness as it chokes the word, and because his attention is on his riches,
possessions, prestige, position, and other things of the world. He is not even aware that he has lost what
knowledge of the world he once had or that his spiritual life is totally unfruitful and that is
because he has no real interest in such things.
At
this time I want to quote from a Spiritual Diary that I just put onto my other
blog which I wrote on the first of August in 2019 which I believe will show that
opposite of what this man thought he had.
John MacArthur
concludes this section by writing “A city missionary in London was called to an
old tenement building where a woman lay dying in the last stages of a terrible
disease. The room was cold and she had
nowhere to lie but on the floor. When
the missionary asked if there was anything he could do, she replied, ‘I have
all I really need; I have Jesus Christ.’
Deeply moved, the missionary went home and penned these words:
‘In the heart of London City,
Mid the dwellings of the poor,
These bright and golden words were
uttered,
‘I have Christ. What want I more?’
Spoken by a lonely woman dying on a
garret floor,
Having not one earthly comfort,
‘I have Christ. What want I more?’”
Give Me Jesus
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
Just give me Jesus
When I am alone
When I am alone
Oh, when I am alone
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
Just give me Jesus
Jesus
Give me Jesus
When I come to die
When I come to die
Oh, when I come to die
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
Just give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
Just give me Jesus
4/3/2022 8:38 AM
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