A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
🌷🌷🌷 September 2🌷🌷🌷
“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart…” (Jeremiah 15:16).
The Bible is the Word of God, and it has words of life for our blessing. It gives knowledge and understanding. We have the Holy Spirit to explain the Bible to us. But there are very few people who enjoy reading the Word of God.
There are three ways of reading the Bible. One way is to read it like a scholar, another like a butterfly and the third like a honey-bee. When a scholar reads the Bible, he sits on an easy chair, with a cushion at the back, a cup of coffee on a side table, with a book, pencil and dictionary. While sipping the coffee and feeling very comfortable he reads the Bible. Such people get much information but everything remains in the mind only and there is no change in their lives. They think, “If I am asked to give a message in Hebron, I can give a very good one, and my wife will appreciate it”. Now the second group of people read the Bible like a butterfly, which flies from flower to flower and garden to garden. Many read the Bible like that. Some love to read their favourite books and chapters like Isaiah 53 and Psalm 23. They read from Matthew 5 and then jump on to something else. But some others read the Bible like a honey-bee and the Bible should be read like that. The honey-bee goes from flower to flower, with a purpose to suck honey. It sits on the flower till the honey comes out and it goes on sucking and gathering honey. It must be gathered in order to be brought to the beehive. Then they all get together after they have gathered the honey from all the flowers and it becomes nice and ripe. Then the queen bee gives order and they eat together and enjoy together. They work together diligently and faithfully and this is the real way of enjoying God’s Word. Just as the bee sucks honey from flower to flower, so we should read our Bible through, systematically with much prayer. We can also enjoy the honey by coming together, in fellowship with fellow-believers. God’s Word is enjoyed together as honeybees. Eat the honey together. That is why we gather together for fellowship with fellow-believers. And the more you appreciate and enjoy Christian fellowship the more you will enjoy God’s Word. If you have not got the taste of Christian fellowship you have no taste for God’s word. They go together.
