Now...let me see if I can reconstruct this post that had recently gone missing early this Wednesday morning when I tried to post it online. Unfortunately, remakes are generally never better than the original...we'll see what happens. I pray it comes across how the Lord wants it expressed.
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With the start of the new school year upon us, I began thinking about college students going to school for the first time. They have more freedom than when they were at home to make their own decisions. And with that new freedom comes many more responsibilities. There are class schedules, extra curricular activities, outside jobs, college tuition, book fees, general living expenses. They face many decisions that they may not have had earlier in their life. So where does that leave their spiritual growth? With such busy days ahead, will they take the time to continue growing in the Lord, taking the time to be in His presence. Or will they merely seek the cliff notes' version for their spiritual walk, trying to just coast along on having only the basics?
Sometimes a person doesn't even need to be in college to have a very busy schedule. So, in everyday situations, do we, as Christians hunger for more of the Word, more of the Lord, or do we just settle for only cracking open the Word, maybe once a week, or only after a crisis hits?
In Deuteronomy 11:18 the Lord commands, “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes." Basically, we are to focus upon the Word as a continual reminder, so that we are ever meditating upon it, and APPLYING it our daily lives. The Word is here to not only teach or instruct us, but also that we know it deeply within our lives, that we are enabled to face every situation BEFORE something hits.
If we just settle for having milk, allowing others to feed us, we will never be strong, nor be equipped to share forth the gospel and present it to a dying world. How will God get the glory then? Living only by the milk of the Word, how can we stand like we are admonished to do in Ephesians 6:10-20.
We are called to be salt and light to a darkened world (Matthew5:13-16). If we are merely smoldering embers, how can we light the way to the Lord? How will our lives stand as a witness to God's glory? We cannot do this without keeping built up in the Word, not by eating merely milk, staying weak, but digging into the Bread--the Bread of Life--and the meat of the Word also. For our Lord wants more for our lives Han merely existing. We need to live, to grow, to be on fire for the Lord. And when finished, to know that we have done all that He has asked of us, fulfilling our destiny in Him.
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