SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/8/2025 8:11 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “The Teaching Scripture”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy 3:16b
Message of the verse: “for teaching”
I continue looking at what John MacArthur has
written as I begin this third part from the words “for teaching.” “We not only are to guard what we know but
sincerely seek to learn more of God’s inexhaustible truth. We should pray with Job, ‘Teach Thou me what
I do not see’ (Job. 34:32). That
dauntless man of God has lost his children, his servants, his flocks, his
health, and even his reputation. He was
wholly unable to see why God permitted those calamities to comp upon him, and
his friend Elihu therefore wanted the Lord to teach Job whatever he needed to
learn in order to endure his painful existence and to profit from it
spiritually.
“Just before Jehovah’s covenant with Israel was ratified near Sinai, Moses ‘took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, ‘All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!’ (Ex. 24:7). Unfortunately, the people of Israel seldom again demonstrated such reverence for God’s Word. Shortly before they were to enter and take possession of the Promised Land, Moses reminded them again: ‘See, I have taught you statues and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it….And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it’ (Deut. 4:5, 14). God’s command to Joshua, Moses’ successor, applies to every believer: ‘Be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for they you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success’ (Josh. 1:7-8).
“When the young but godly King Josiah heard read to him ‘the words of the book of the law,’ which had been discovered as the temple was being repaired, ‘he tore his clothes. Then the king commanded Hilikah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Miciah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaih the king’s servant saying, ‘Go inquire of the Lord for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us’ (2 Kings 22:11-13).”
One can see through these different verses that
MacArthur is using that it is so important to read, and through the power of
the Holy Spirit understand what is in the Word of God. Bibles are so plentiful in our world today,
as for one thing the Bible is the most published book of all time, and now we
have them on our phones so that if you put an audio Bible on your phone you can
listen to it whenever your time is freed up.
In my case I usually listen to the Bible whenever I am taking my walk
during the day and try to get through the listening of the Bible in a fairly
short time. You can give this a try and
see how you like it. It will be
profitable!
6/8/2025 8:34 AM
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