SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/13/2025 10:23 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “The Reproving Scripture”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:16c
Message of the verse: “for reproof”
This morning June 13, 2025 I am asking the Lord to
continue to be with the little nation of Israel as they began their battle with
evil as they attacked Iran early in the morning (Israel time) and continue to
try and stop Iran from getting an atomic bomb which they would use to destroy
Israel. God said to Abram in the 12th
chapter of Genesis when he called him to begin what would become the nation of
Israel, “And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I
will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.’” I have been told that you can chart the rise
and fall of every great nation on how they treat the Jewish people, and this
certainly goes along with this verse. My
prayers go up to the Lord for the nation and people of Israel as they do what
they had to do, and that is to stop Iran from getting an atomic bomb. Father bless the military of Israel as they
are doing what needs to be done and that is to destroy Iran’s hope of ever
getting an atomic bomb. Fulfill Your
promise to Israel of blessing those who bless her and cursing those who curse
her.
I
now begin this SD on these two words from 2 Timothy 3:16c by looking at Psalm
119:99-100 “99 I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies
are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts.” The
Psalmist continues in Psalm 119:104-105 “104 From Your precepts I get
understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. 105 Nun. Your word is a lamp
to my feet And a light to my path.” The
Word of God steers us away from sin and toward righteousness as seen in these
verses from the longest chapter in the Word of God. A little background about Psalm 119, and that
is the author of this Psalm (some believe it was David) uses the Hebrew
alphabet to speak about the Word of God, and I believe that some form of God’s
name is used in all but (I think) four of these verses, which the Psalm has 176
verses as again the author uses the Hebrew alphabet to write about the Word of
God.
John
MacArthur writes “Isaiah warned the people of Israel to ‘hat every false way.’ ‘and
when they say to you, ‘consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,’
should not a people consult their God
Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do
not speak according to his word, it is because they have no dawn [light]’ (Isa.
8:19-20).”
MacArthur writes the following in concluding his
thoughts one this partial verse: “When
we are constrained by God’s Word to reprove a sinning brother or sister, we
should do so in humility and love. That always
was Paul’s practice. ‘I do not write these things to shame you,’ he told
immature and disobedient believers in Corinth, ‘but to admonish you as my
beloved children’ (1 Cor. 4:14). If they holy Lord obligates Himself to reprove
and discipline His disobedient children in love (Heb. 12:5-11), how much more
are His children obligated to reprove each other in love.
“It
is just as important, although more difficult, to be gracious when we receive reproof, whether directly by God’s
Word of from other believers who call us to biblical account. ‘For the commandment is a lamb, and the teaching
is light,’ an Old Testament saint professed, ‘and reproofs for discipline are
the way of live’ (Prov. 6:23). Like him,
every believer should be as grateful for the reproving work of the Word as for
its encouragement. It is impossible to
genuinely seek righteousness and truth if we do not hate and renounce sin and
falsehood.”
Lord
willing I will continue to look at 2 Timothy 3:16 in short words from it as
this is how John MacArthur breaks down these two very important verses,
including verse 17. Paul writes this
letter to his son in the Lord, Timothy, which is part of the Word of God and so
we as believers get to read this very important letter which is a part of the
Word of God.
Spiritual
Meaning for My Life Today: I desire that the Lord continue to use His
Word to do a work in my life so that I can continue to learn and walk with the
Lord, desiring to serve Him.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I trust that God will keep His promises to
Israel and use them to defeat a very godless enemy who are being led by Satan
to destroy Israel, something that according to the Word of God will never
happen.
6/13/2025 10:58 AM
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