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THE BELIEVER AND THE WORD
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10
Psalm 119:15-16

1 Timothy 4:6-16

 

“Meditate upon these things;

give thyself wholly to them…”

 

THE BELIEVER AND THE WORD
 
The Lord is good to provide each kind of animals its system to survive and procreate. There are animals designed to consume grass. They are provided with enough stomach compartments to digest the grass. Some eat meat and so the Creator supplies them with digestive juices in their single stomach to assimilate the foods into the body. There are also those that can survive in both systems and God marvellously created functional stomachs for them to survive.
 
He will meditate on God’s precepts: As God has provided animals their respective system to be able to survive, He wisely provided man with the wisdom to be able to digest His Word. And this is by way of the illumination from the Spirit of God. To meditate is to ponder the words of God. In other words, a believer is given the heart to study God’s Word. This is done by regular communion with the Lord through prayer. God equips those whom He had chosen with the hunger and thirst for His Word. He considers God’s ways with pleasure, and he obeys the Word.
 
He will delight in God’s statutes: The believer looks upon God’s Word as his delight. This means to look upon the Word of the LORD with favour. A Christian will be pleased with the decrees and commandments of his God. He sees all of them as advantageous to him and therefore must be received. If indeed a delight, then the believer will not forget the Word. Whosoever loves the statutes of the Lord will cherish the Word. There will be a constant rehearsal in his mind to recall the Word of God. He will have God’s Word in his memory so that it may not go away.
 
The Holy Spirit who indwells every believer will produce the hunger and thirst for God’s Word! He will plant in the believer’s heart the desire to meditate on the Scriptures. Just as the sheep grazes on green pastures, the believer ponders on the Word with the ability to understand and live it out practically. Only by the Spirit of God can the believer delight in God’s statutes. Having the mind of Christ, the saints are equipped with the ability to take in spiritual things.
 
THOUGHT: Do I have the hunger and thirst for God’s Word?
PRAYER: Father, help me look into Thy Word to obey them as Thou hast commanded me.

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