EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/4/2025 8:55 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “The Lord Preserves the Saints”
Bible Reading & Meditation Focus: Jude 24a
Message of the verse: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,”
Let me begin by saying that this will be a short Spiritual Diary for today as there is only a little bit to look at in order to finish this section. Now before I work on this section I want to explain that I am trying my best to continue to do what I believe the Lord has called me to do for the cause of Christ, and that is studying my Bible and then using helps from John MacArthur’s commentaries and when I was doing the Old Testament SD’s a few years ago I also used Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s “Be Books.”
I have mentioned in earlier Spiritual Diaries that my wife has cancer as we found this out in February of this year, and since that time she has had surgery to remove parts of her body which had cancer in them. I honestly believe that there is more cancer to deal with as we are looking at evidence at this time to find out what the next things that will happen. I want to also write something from the 139th Psalm and verse 16, and then explain what I have learned from this verse. “Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.” Now notice the highlighted portion of this verse. This Psalm was written by David and we see here that David knew that God knew exactly how many days that David would live on planet earth, and it is my belief that God knows this about everyone of those who have lived or will live on planet earth. The God I worship is a BIG God, and He has made plans as to what will happen here on planet earth. God knows everything, and it is no problem for Him to know everything for He is God. Let me quote another verse from Deuteronomy 29:29 “"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.” This verse says to me that there are things that God has not shared with us, even those who are believers, and because He is God He is not obligated to tell us everything. However what He has told us we are to obey. Please don’t make God too small, for He is not and never will be. If you want to I would appreciate your prayers for my wife, Sandra, and for me, Ken as this is affecting me too as we have been married over 52 years, and it is my hope and prayer that we will both alive when the trumpet sounds and the dead in Christ will rise first, they we who are alive will be raised a second later and all of us will be changed as we meet the Lord in the air and then will ever be with the Lord. Now I will quote from MacArthur’s commentary in order to finish this last little bit from this section. Thanks in advance for your prayers, they all are appreciated!
“The magnitude of that promise (1 Peter 5:10) is overwhelming.” “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.” God Himself perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes us who are His children. Though His purposes for the future involve some pain in the present, He will nevertheless give us grace to endure and persevere in faith. Even while the enemy attacks us personally, God simultaneously perfects us. He Himself is doing it. He will accomplish His purposes in us, bringing us to wholeness, setting us on solid ground, making us strong, and establishing us on a firm foundation.
“To be sure, the doctrine of eternal security does not mean that people can live in patterns of unrepentant sin and still be assured of heaven. Eternal security is not a license for sin (cf. Rom. 6:1). For that matter, we who truly believe would never view it as such—since we have been given a new nature (cf. 2 Peter 1:4) tat loves to obey our Master (John 14:15). Those who make a profession of faith, but then fall away into lifestyles of sin, reveal that their profession was never really genuine (cf. 1 John 2:19). But for those of us whose faith is real, the security of salvation is a joyous certainty indeed.”
Lord willing we will look at Jude 14b-25, at least begin, in tomorrow’s SD.
9/4/2025 9:22 PM
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