The Word

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“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation” – 1 Peter 2:2

There is a beautiful and touching story about a young French girl who had been born blind. After she learned to read by touch, a friend gave her a Braille copy of Mark’s gospel. She read it so much that her fingers became calloused and insensitive. In an effort to regain her feeling, she cut the skin from the ends of her fingers. Tragically, however, her callouses were replaced by permanent and even more insensitive scars. She sobbingly gave the book a goodbye kiss, saying,” Farewell, farewell, sweet word of my heavenly Father.” In doing so, she discovered that her lips were even more sensitive than her fingers had been, and she spent the rest of her life reading her great treasure with her lips.

Would that every Christian had such an appetite for the Word of God!

All of us need to depend on God’s Word and put the Word of God in loving action.

Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we also store up the truths of God’s Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever may come our way.

“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” – Psalm 119:103