SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/7/2025 10:29 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Teaching Scripture”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy 3:16b
Message of the verse: “for teaching”
I begin this SD with a quotation from the commentary
of John MacArthur: “Throughout church
history, the Lord has uniquely and wonderfully sustained and blessed the
spiritual lives and influence of believers who, because of imprisonment,
illiteracy, isolation, or other restrictions beyond their control, could not
study His Word. But the teaching of
Scripture is the divine body of truth without which no believer who has access
to it can live, minister, or witness effectively. Tragically, some of the most biblically
illiterate believers in our day life in lands where God’s Word is readily
available and where scriptural preaching, teaching, and literature are
abundant.”
Let me tell you a story that actually happened in the
country of Cambodia many years ago. The
communist government of Cambodia at this time was going through the country,
after going through the big cities killing different people who were resisting
the government. During this time of
killing people in the country they came to a village and made the people of the
village dig a very big hole, a hole that was supposed to be used bury all the
people in the village. After the whole
was dug and the people were standing around it waiting to be killed there was a
woman who cried out to the God who died on the cross. This was all she knew about the Bible and
about the Lord Jesus Christ who came to earth to save sinners. As the moments continued to pass by there was
no noise of gunfire and a little while later the people opened their eyes and
saw no soldiers, as they had all left.
Now a few months later there were some missionaries who
came to this village and began to talk to those in the village about salvation
through the Lord Jesus Christ, and when they came to this woman, the woman who
cried out to the God who died on the cross, she asked them where they had been
before this, and why had they not come earlier.
Well there was no real answer to this question, but they were there now
and so they witnessed to those in the village about the salvation that comes
through Jesus Christ, Savior and Lord.
This story goes to show that God is in control, that in
God’s timing He will save those who turn to Him even in a way that this woman
did, not knowing hardly anything about the Lord Jesus Christ with the exception
of knowing that He died on the cross, and God honored her plea, saved her along
with many others in that Cambodian village.
If He can do that with someone who all they knew about Him was that He
died on the cross, then think about what He can do with those who know the
truth, but as yet have not accepted it.
One more paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary to finish
this SD for this morning: It goes
without saying that it is impossible to believe, understand, and follow what
you not even know. It is completely
futile, as well as foolish, to expect to live a spiritual life without knowing
spiritual truth. Biblically untaught
believers, especially those in biblically untaught churches, are easy prey for
false teachers. They are spiritual ‘children,
tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by
the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming’ (Eph. 4:14). Throughout most of the redemptive history,
God could have said what He said in Hosea’s day: ‘My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge’ (Hosea 4:6). It is for that
reason, as well as for the even greater reason of honoring the Lord, that regular,
systematic, and through study of the doctrine in God’s Word is imperative for
God’s people.”
Let me just say that that is one of the reasons for these Spiritual Diaries that I put on my blogs to show the things that God has and is still teaching me through the study of His Word, and by God’s grace He will use what I write to bring people to the Lord, and to cause believers to “Grow in grace in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Spiritual Meaning for My life Today: I desire to
continue telling those I come in contact with, and those who read my Spiritual
Diaries to come to the Lord before it is too late.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To trust
that the Lord is showing my wife where she is to go to get the treatment that
He has for her in order to make sure that her body is cleansed of cancer.
6/7/2025 10:55 AM
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