SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/12/2024 11:41 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “PT-1 “Faithfulness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
24:45-51
Message of the verses: “45 “Who then is
the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household
to give them their food at the proper time? 46 “Blessed is that slave whom his
master finds so doing when he comes. 47 “Truly I say to you that he will put
him in charge of all his possessions. 48 “But if that evil slave says in his
heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ 49 and begins to beat his
fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; 50 the master of that slave
will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does
not know, 51 and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the
hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
We begin the very last section from the 24th
chapter of the book of Matthew, and I believe that it will take a few days in
order to finish this section. This has
taken a long time to look and write about what is going on in this chapter as I
began to look at this chapter back in the middle of November of last year. Those who have read my Spiritual Diaries that
are on my blogs know that the subject of end times is something that I truly
love to learn about, and this 24th chapter, along with the 25th
chapter are things that the Lord Jesus Christ is talking about to His disciples
about what will happen during the Tribulation period, or to put it another way
the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy found in the 9th
chapter of Daniel.
In
this section that we will begin to look at today we will see that Jesus now is
presenting another analogy to reinforce His point using the familiar imagery of
a trusted slave whom his master put in charge of feeding the entire household. Now the particular responsibility of the slave
in this analogy is incidental to Jesus’ point, which is that every believer is
a slave of Jesus Christ and therefore obligated to serve Him in every way. It is true that every believer of Jesus
Christ has been given a divine stewardship and responsibility in the work of
Christ on earth, and in that stewardship he is to be faithful and sensible. MacArthur adds “His life, breath, energy,
talents, spiritual gifts, and every other good thing he has are trusts for God
to be used in His service and to His glory.”
I have written in earlier SD’s about how I view this and it comes from a
verse in the second chapter of Ephesians.
Ephesians 2:8-9 are very popular verses, especially when witnessing to a
person about the gospel: “8 For by grace
you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” These two verses are, as mentioned tools to
use when talking about the gospel, as they tell of how a person has become a believer,
and how a person can become a believer, which is by grace through faith. The next verse, verse 10 is a verse that I
have thought much about and it goes along with what we are looking at in this
first paragraph of our study today. “10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” Paul is saying that believers are the Lord’s
workmanship, and that we are created in Christ Jesus for good works, and then
he goes on to write “which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in
them.” God has prepared those good works
that He desires us to do, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and also the
studying of His Word to do for the cause of Christ. Perhaps a question could be “How do we know
what those good works that we are to do for the cause of Christ are? My answer it kind of a three part answer,
perhaps four part. I would say prayer
would be the first part, and then the reading of His Word, which goes along
with prayer. Trying things which you
feel are what the Lord desires for you to do, and seeing if the Holy Spirit is
guiding you in that direction would be another thing to do. Lastly talking to a person whom you trust and
who is spiritual could be another thing to do.
I believe that the Holy Spirit will guide a believer into doing what God
has called them to do for the cause of Christ, and in doing those things you
are called to do through the power of the Holy Spirit will bring glory to the
Lord for you are doing those things in His power for the glory of the
Lord. I truly believe that in eternity
past that the Lord set me aside to write these blogs that I write each day as I
study His Word. I also have been
teaching a Sunday school class for almost eight years, so I think that this
also is something that the Spirit of God has called me to do for the cause of
Christ. Remember the things that God
called a believer to do in eternity past will be done through the study of God’s
Word and through the power of the Holy Spirit.
2/12/2024 12:26 PM
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