A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY

🌷🌷October 17🌷🌷

“.. And the manna ceased.. they did eat of the fruit of the land.”(Joshua 5:12)

As long as the children of Israel were in the wilderness, god supplied them with Manna daily. After coming to Canaan it ceased. They had to work hard for their food from now on. In order to come to spiritual maturity we must become active partners with God. In the beginning of our spiritual life for a short time God will look after us and watch over us in a special way. But as we progress in spiritual maturity God expects us to exercise faith to a larger extent and call upon Him for help, for producing more difficult spiritual fruit. He wants us to find out His will and bear out responsibilities and face trials and difficulties, which are common to all, with confidence and with God’s help. This way God wants us to learn to claim His victory by faith.

The apostle Paul, sometimes expounded many mysteries in the Word of God to help his followers in spiritual matters. Then, while he was away, he wrote to them to work out their salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). So far a short time God will give us shepherds to feed us, teach us and lead us. Afterwards we have to learn to work by ourselves. We must learn to read the Bible and to mediate upon it and be able to hear God’s voice through it. Some believers remain as babes for too long a time. They want other God’s servants to feed them with milk. They do not grow in understanding nor have capacity to digest the strong spiritual meat in God’s Word (Heb. 5: 12-14). May the Lord help us to learn more and more how to hear his voice and find His perfect will and no more continue to be babes spiritually.