SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/7/2022 9:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus: More from
Matt. 16:18-20
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
16:18-20
Message of the verses: “18 “And I also say
to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the
gates of Hades shall not overpower it. 19 “I will give you the keys of the
kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven, and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." 20
Then He warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the
Christ.”
Jesus and His disciples were staying out of the limelight
as it was His desire to spend a lot of time with them teaching them things that
they will need to know after He has left them. If one looks at this situation
that they were in they would see that the Jewish leaders were becoming more and
more adamant in their opposition to Jesus and also the multitudes were becoming
more and more skeptical and disillusioned.
It will not be long before the multitudes will cry out “crucify, crucify
Him,” and the Jewish leaders will beg Pilate to give the order to put Jesus
to death. Understand that it was the
Lord Jesus Christ who was the One who was in control of all that happened to
Him including the time that He would die for the sins of the world, which would
be exactly when the Passover Lambs would be slain by the children of Israel.
The
disciples had just confessed that Jesus was their Messiah through their
statesmen, Peter and yet because of what they had been taught about what the
Messiah would do they themselves were still in disillusionment. I have mentioned that if there was a desire
for the Jewish people to know when their Messiah would be born and when He
would be crucified then all they would have had to do is study the ninth
chapter of Daniel as I believe some of them had, for I can see this in what we
call the Christmas story and much can be seen in both Matthew’s and Luke’s
gospels. There were a few who knew including
those Mejia’s who came to Jesus when He was probably around two years old
giving to Him gifts that would be needed for them to leave and go to Egypt
until Herod was dead.
As
mentioned it would not be too long until Jesus would go to Jerusalem the final
time in order to die on the cross, and even a shorter time when He would tell
His disciples that this would happen, but before revealing those heartrending truths,
He assured the Twelve that His program was on schedule, that He was indeed in
control, and that they had every reason to continue their unreserved trust in
Him. What these men saw on the surface did
not reflect the reality of what God was doing.
I get the same feeling about what is going on in our country today, as I
know for sure that God is in control, and yet it seems to me at times that
Satan is in control, but then again I know Satan is not in control and in the
end will burn in hell.
Just
as Jesus was teaching His disciples that they had no reason to doubt or fear,
so that is the lesson that all believers need to know as we go through what is
the beginning of the most horrible time that this planet will ever go through,
but as my old Pastor said while he was alive “I’m looking for the Uppertaker,
not the undertaker.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Sometimes in the days that we are living in that
it is hard to understand that God is truly in control of what is going on in
our country and also around the world, but He is, and in the end all the plans
that He has for His people will come to pass, and all the plans that He has for
this wicked generation will also come to pass.
In the mean time it is my desire to tell as many of this wicked
generation the way that they can receive peace through the blood of the cross
as they come to the Lord in repentance trusting that He will save them from
their sins.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I trust that the Lord will put on my path
people who are in need of trusting the Lord for salvation.
9/7/2022 10:25 AM
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