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"How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" (Psalm 119:103 NKJV)
Growing in Christ has been lovely and exhilarating for me. As time has passed, I have found myself always bringing words of Scripture into my everyday confabulations with friends and family. One day, someone said to me, "Why do you always bring the Bible into every discussion?" At that moment, I didn't have any answer for the fellow. How could I possibly tell someone how sweet God's Word is?
The Word of God should never taste bitter or boring to His children. It should rather interest and excite us whenever we hear or see it.
"Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." (Jeremiah 15:16a NKJV)
"And He said to me, 'Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.' So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness." (Ezekiel 3:3 NKJV)
Believers for whom the Scriptures taste bland will always sleep during church sermons. They will always want to walk out of the church after praise and worship sessions, and talk about something else. The exact location of their Bible at home will remain unknown to them. They are always not in Sunday school or Bible study classes. Friend, I tell you solemnly, being in that state is spiritually unhealthy, because Christ said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." (Luke 4:4b NKJV)
This means that if we feed on physical food alone and fail to feed our spirit with the spiritual food of God's Word, we could be fine and good-looking outwardly but spiritually malnourished. Eating is good, but eating only physical food is bad for Christians.
How do we acquire a love for God's Word? Firstly, we must recognize that we are unable to cultivate a deep longing for His Word on our own. Instead, we must ask the Lord to give us a great love for it, and He will do that, because it is His will.
"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him." (1 John 5:14-15 NKJV)
Let us start with a Bible verse or Bible passage each day. Follow gospel posts online. Keep only gospel movies and songs on your phone. Keep the Word of God in sight by meditating on it and memorizing it always. There is safety and life in God's Word. Pray with me:
Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me to taste the sweetness in Your Word and help me to become incurably addicted to knowing Your Word. Above all, may I be a doer of it and not just a hearer only. In Your mighty name, I pray. Amen.
Owen Osa
Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria
Reprinted from PresbyCan with permission
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