A Weekly Devotional – The Times – Personal Meditation (1)

A Weekly Devotional – The Times – Personal Meditation

Comment: The decision to provide a weekly devotional may serve to be a good thing as this will give me more time to prepare a more in-depth meditation. Often when developing a thought or two for the day, many other verses of scripture and content comes to mind. Time can limit a daily meditation and restrict the increase of an awareness of God’s presence through the Holy Spirit and the Word. 

Devotional: Proverbs 4:7 – Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom and in all of your getting, get understanding. This wisdom that Solomon who was King of Israel at the time of his writings? Is he talking about human wisdom? Or, the Wisdom that comes to the children of God through the study of God’s written Word and through the guidance of the Holy Spirit? Yes! and through daily personal meditation God gives His children “His Wisdom” 

This wisdom does not come from the world, the world does not know or understand the Wisdom of God; notice if you will, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 also Isaiah 64:4. Notice in the last sentence of 1 Corinthians 2:9, the things that God has prepared for those who love Him, and now meditate on Hebrews 1:1-4. Can we understand? We can if we avail ourselves to the Creator God who made the worlds, purged our sins, who is above all, because He is ABOVE ALL.

As we begin this weekly journey, I was reminded that Israel’s New Year begins tonight and through tomorrow. Israel has two trumpets to blow and herald in the New Jewish year 5778. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of both the Hebrew month of Tishre and the Jewish high holidays, which ends with Yom Kippur ten days after the New Year begins.

Note: God told Moses to make two trumpets for himself of silver Numbers 10:1-10, these were used to gather the people together and directing them regarding the movement of the camp. In Leviticus 23 we see that these trumpets were used to begin the feast, which brings in the Jewish New Year. Now there is much we can say about this New Year within the Jewish communities all across the world today, but again time restrains me. One thought; why two trumpets, would not one be sufficient? God called the nation to be a witness to the nations and He has also called the church to be a witness to the nations, therefore two trumpets.

To pray and meditate on the times in which we live, may I suggest the following reading, Matthew 24:32-33 (Parable of the Fig Tree) by the way the Fig Tree is Israel, see Joel 1:6-7, also Hosea 9:10. The regathering of Israel is the parable of the fig tree. Now no one knows the day or the hour for the return of Messiah, Matthew 24:36-44, yet God has called His Children to be ready! Are you ready? If you seldom pray and meditate in the Word of the Living God, then you are NOT ready to say in prayer; “EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS.

Some of this material comes from the ministry of Amir Tsarfati of the Ministry “Behold Israel” if you wish you can download this app from the “app store” it is free.