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Do
you find serving God and obeying his will to be something hard to do? I
know
that some people have a harder time than others living as God would
wish. Our
world puts so many pressures on us to conform to it that sometimes it
can be
hard to swallow all that we are told we should be doing.
Sometimes we are like the man that declared that he would begin to eat
healthier and after hearing so much about the benefits of oatmeal that
oatmeal
would now be his cereal of choice. After eating his first bowl, he told
his
wife, "I hope I develop a taste for the stuff, I really hate the
texture." "Well," she asked, "how long did you cook
it?" "You're supposed to cook it?" he said.
Could part of the problem be in how we receive the word of God? You see
part of
the problem I have observed through the years is that many people only
take in
the word of God as it is prepared and spoon-fed to them by others.
God's word
is meant to be taken in or "eaten" if you will by us as individuals
and will always taste best when we go to the trouble of feeding
ourselves. Yes,
I know that we may sometimes need help in clarifying or understanding
some
portion of it, but if it is not something you savor, then there is
another
problem. David wrote in Psalms 119:103, "How sweet your words taste!
Yes,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!" and in Psalms 19:9-10 "the judgments
of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are
they than
gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb."
How about spending more time with a healthy portion of God's word today?
God Bless
Russ Lawson Email:
rlawson@bright.net
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