God speaks

God speaks through the Scriptures to us today. It is exciting when one senses God speaking in that still quiet inner voice. But His “normal” way of communicating with His children is through the Bible. I like Glyn Evans’s thoughts on the subject.

“Jesus called the words of the Bible ‘life’ (John 6:33), and Peter called them ‘seed’ (1 Peter 1:23-25). The Word of God is seed that contains the life princiiple of God Himself, and when that Word is read, digested and obeyed, it manifests itself in a living reproduction of God, just as the seed will manifest itself again the the new plant. The Bible is not history, biography or anthology; it is God’s life in the crystalline form of words that, when read and obeyed, releases that life for the benefit and blessing of the reader.

“The Bible is food (Deuteronomy 8:3) and food is nothing more than the chemical continuation of life. Unless the Holy Spirit has food to give me, He cannot maintain the level of spiritual life in me that He desires. That is n why He pleads with me not to live off experience, service, ritual, dogma, or fellowship, but to live off the Word, which alone carries the capability of sustaining my spiritual life.”

Question: do you and I read the Word as a ritual exercisde of do we read it as one searching for a love message?