SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/31/2022 10:14 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Confession”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
16:16
Message of the verse: “16 And Simon Peter
answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Now it seems to me that the truth of Jesus’ divinity
and messiahship was established in the minds of the disciples beyond
question. Just like people who are
believers today the disciples will experience times of weakness and confusion
about what Jesus said and did, but they will no longer doubt who He truly is,
God’s Son, their Messiah and their Lord.
As
we look at the timing of this confession we can see that it took two and a half
years for it to come about, as this came through the struggles and also the
hatred of the Jewish leaders, leaders that the disciples had to have their mind’s
changed about as they never use to have any problems with them, but once we
look into the book of Acts we will see that the same trouble that Jesus had
with them they too will have with them.
On my other blog I am putting my Spiritual Diaries from the book of Acts
and am now in the second chapter in posting them one per day.
Once
again we see Peter as the spokesman for the Twelve, and so it is believed that
he was speaking for all of them in confessing Jesus as their Messiah. They finally figure it out, and may I say
that I believe that the Holy Spirit of God was a big part of this day working
in the hearts of the Twelve even though at this time they would not have been
baptized with the Spirit as this would not happen until the day of Pentecost as
seen in Acts chapter two.
We
have mentioned the place where all of this took place where the Greek god Pan
was worshiped there at Caesarea Philippi.
Now the Twelve were worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the
living God, the One who is the creator of the earth.
MacArthur
concludes this section: “As evidenced by
numerous things the Twelve later said and did, they did not at this time have a
full comprehension of the Trinity or even of the full nature and work of
Christ. But they knew Jesus was truly
the Christ and that He was truly divine, the Son of the living God. Son reflects the idea of oneness in essence
because the son is one in nature with his father. So Jesus Christ was on in nature with God the
Father (cf. John 5:17-18; 10:30-33).
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It was way back in January of 1974 that I
became a believer in Jesus Christ and it took me a fairly long time in
understanding who He truly is, as I took the time to learn as I studied the
Word of God. Times were confusion for me
in certain areas of who Jesus truly was but God was and is patience with me as
there are still things that, when it comes with my walk with the Lord that I
struggle with.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I trust that
the Lord will open my eyes to some of the struggles and continue to be patient
with me in my walk with the Lord. I
trust that He will continue to keep me filled with His Spirit as I walk with
Him each day.
8/31/2022 10:43 AM
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