Saints on SermonIndex, I have often taught that reading the Word of God daily is not sufficient. In order for the Word to take it's place in oue hearts where it can yield fruit, it must be more than ingested - it must be [i]digested[/i] also. Ingesting merely puts food in your stomach; digesting processes it and gets the nutrients into your bloodstream. Thus, a person can actually starve to death on a full belly of undigested food. - Brother Paul"The Bible gives us renewal. Listening to the voice of the Lord day by day keeps our Christian life continually fresh. It saves us from becoming stale, with all that that implies of corruption and decay. Mouldy bread will not make anyone's mouth water. Even so, the staleness displayed by many believers cannot be expected to draw anyone to Christ. Is your Christian life fresh every day? It can be so only ifyou feed daily upon the heavenly manna (Exod. 16:13-15; compare verse 20).In Psalm 119:103. the Word of God is also likened to food. The same symbol occurs again in Jeremiah 15:16 and in 1 Peter 2:2. The prophet Ezekiel and the apostle John are each shown too in Scripture as" eating" a book (Ezek. 3:1-3; Rev.10:9, 10). We have here a picture of men assimilating and digesting the Word of God. Food gives us strength. Our bodies cannot be built up without it. A person who is under-nourished will be skinny and weak in his constitution, and therefore unable to resist disease. He will also be unable to defend himself if physically assaulted by another. A small push will often be enough to knock him down. In exactly the same way, one who neglects the Word of God will be spiritually under-developed, and consequently unable to resist temptation and to withstand the Devil's onslaughts. Only those who regularly meditate on God's Word grow into strong virile Christians (1 John 2:14). [b]Mere reading of the Bible will not make you strong, but meditation upon it allows the Word to penetrate into the very core of your being and thus to become a part of you, hidden in your heart (Psa.119:11).[/b]"- Zac Poonen
_________________Paul Frederick West
PaulWest wrote:A person who is under-nourished will be skinny and weak in his constitution, and therefore unable to resist disease. He will also be unable to defend himself if physically assaulted by another. A small push will often be enough to knock him down.
_________________CHRISTIAN
