Dear God,
This morning I again thank You for my life and the freedom to search Your Holy Word. Please open my heart, through the Holy Spirit, teaching and nourishing my mind through Your Sacred Word. I also have the teaching and example of Jesus, from when He came down to earth. The life of Jesus is an example of living Your love; as a man. This was not as we can in human strength live and interact with others.
I am grateful, for a new depth from the teaching of Moses, on the borders of the Promised Land, which contains wisdom for us, on the borders of our promised land = Heaven.
Moses taught the people about their need and why God had led them around for 40 years in the wilderness. Despite being greatly blessed and guided by God, they had in pride, rebellion and disbelief greatly sinned against You; as we so often do. For them (us) God knew the only answer for them, was to learn humble dependence upon Him and appreciation for the words of the, all loving, powerful and all-knowing Mighty God. The Children of Israel had for 40 years, been supplied miracle food, that fell each morning; however they (us) were in greater need, Deuteronomy 8:3 “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, fed you with Manna…..that He might make you know that man shalt not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.”
I pray again, that in me is placed a great hunger to learn of You, through the reading of scripture, with perception and the ability to recognize and place aside human preconceptions and theories. From an early age Jesus was taught by His mother the scriptures, illuminated by the Holy Spirit; as is available to us! Thus taught by God, His command and understanding of scripture amazed the priests and ‘learned of His day
Jesus being kept by the power of The Spirit, and his belief and knowledge of scripture, came from His baptism, filled with the Holy Spirit, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, for a 40 day test with the devil. Jesus knew scripture intimately and through the Holy Spirit, in discernment, Jesus quelled the devil with a quote from scripture, for all three temptations. For the first, Luke 4:4 “But Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’” (Deut. 8:3)
Not busyness, hunger, stress or feeling tired is an excuse for not living ‘by every word of God’. Your inspired Bible tells me we have all the assistance and strength available, to claim so we can read, and be able to understand, assimilate and obey every word.