MORNING MANNA 3-4-22
TIME WITH GOD
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.“– Psa. 1:1-2
One of our great mistakes today is that of assuming that attending church on Sunday relieves us of all our weekly responsibilities regarding the time we spend with God. Our problem is not that we have denied God, but that we have crowded Him out of our lives. If we are serious about our “daily bread” we better spend as much time as possible with “the Living Bread”. This is what A. W. Tozer had in mind when he wrote the following:
“I have often wished that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists! God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: the man who would know God must give time to Him! He must count no time wasted which is spent in the cultivation of His acquaintance. He must give himself to meditation and prayer hours on end. So did the saints of old, the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets and the believing members of the holy Church in all generations. And so must we if we would follow in their train! May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the kingdom like little children through the marketplace, chattering about everything but pausing to learn the true value of nothing?”
Sadly most professing Christians spend far too little time in God’s Word. Then they complain when God doesn’t grant all their desires or exempt them from trials. They get bitter when they are unable to cope with circumstances, as though God had failed to keep His promises. But the real problem is that they have starved themselves of the spiritual nourishment they need. They have forgotten what Jesus said in John 15:5 “ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing”. Commit yourself today to meditating on God’s Word daily. – HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
