Page 3 - Our Food: The Word of God - February 2018 - Truth & Tidings

In addition to needing the discipline of will be visible to discerning and spiritual be-
feeding on the Word on a regular and daily lievers.
basis, the believer must also involve his or Take time to be holy, the world rushes on.
her entire self in this activity. Psalm 119
teaches us that feeding on the Word of God Spend much time in secret with Jesus alone;
affects the complete person. The theme of By looking to Jesus like Him thou shalt be;
this Psalm is the preciousness and purpose Thy friends in thy conduct
of the Word of God. In it we learn the value His likeness shall see.
of the Word and the results of obeying it. In the example of Job mentioned previ-
LIPS: “With my lips have I declared all ously, we see that, beyond esteeming “the
the judgments of Thy mouth” (v13, KJV) words of His mouth” (Job 23:12b, KJV), he
MIND: “I will meditate in Thy pre- also embraced the Word, and did not depart
cepts” (v15, KJV) or turn aside from “the commandment of
MEMORY: “I will not forget Thy His lips” (Job 23:12a, KJV). This is the secret
word” (v16, KJV) of spiritual growth – it is not only being hear-
MOUTH: “And take not the word of ers of His Word, but doers also (James 1:22).
truth utterly out of my mouth” (v43, KJV) Often, the reason we do not make the spiri-
HANDS: “My hands also will I lift up tual progress that we should is not because we
have not read – or that we do not know – the
unto Thy commandments, which I have Word of God, but rather that we fail to obey
loved” (v48, KJV)
it. When reading the Scriptures, it is good to
HEART: “I will keep Thy precepts cultivate a prayerful and humble spirit so
with my whole heart” (v69, KJV) that we might apply it to our lives. It was
FEET: “Thy word is a lamp unto my Peter’s desire that believers would “grow in
feet” (v105, KJV) grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and
EYES: “Mine eyes prevent the night Savior Jesus Christ” (2Peter 3:18, KJV). The
watches, that I might meditate in Thy more we grow and develop as Christians, the
word” (v148, KJV) more Christ-like we will become.
DEVELOPMENT Calm in Thy secret presence, Lord,
I rest this weary soul of mine;
It is obvious in the natural realm that a
child’s physical growth and development is Feed on the fullness of Thy Word,
related to the adequacy of their dietary in- And die to all the things of time.
take. Feeding on the Word of God will in-
evitably lead to evidence of spiritual growth DIGESTING FOOD
and development. This is the teaching of 1 The food we consume for our physical
Peter 2:2: “that ye may grow thereby” bodies needs to be digested in order to bene-
(KJV). Just as the face of Moses shone fit us. Often indigestion is caused by eating
when he came down the mount (Exo too fast, and the nourishment from the food
34:29) and just as Ruth carried the visible is not properly broken down and absorbed to
testimony of her gleaning with her into the meet our body’s need. When it comes to the
city (Ruth 2:18), so spiritual development matter of feeding on the Word of God there
resulting from feeding on the Word of God is no “fast-food,” that is, there are no short-

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