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'Man Shall not live
by Bread alone, But by every Word of God' Luke 4:4
Two
kinds of food for two kinds of Life. We are flesh and we are Spirit.
Close
your eyes and imagine someone who is starving. Gaunt cheeks, bulging eyes,
stick like limbs, knobbly joints, protruding ribcage. It is not a pleasant
image, and one we are very unfomfortable with. We instinctively look away.
A person in that predicament has been robbed of their dignity and their
health, and is staring death in the face.
That
is what we see with the eyes of our body, but what does the eyes of our
spirit see ? Do we see the malnourished starving spirit deprived of the
Word of God ? Does the emaciated spirit cause us as much sorrow as the
emaciated body ? If we fail to see it, God does not. he looks upon those
who allow themselves to be robbed of his Word, and is filled with sorrow
at their starving spirits. Those who are starving physically are not at
fault, For if sustenance were available, they would surely take it. How
sad then that the Word of God is readily available to those that desparately
need it's sustenance, yet they choose not to avail themselves of it, and
instead their spirits slowly starve.
Oh,
Taste and see that the Lord is Good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him
! Psalm 34:8
Contribution
from Roger Malone
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