Worshipping

On this first day of the week, this gift of another precious and privileged Lord’s Day, Sunday, we are quickened and awakened straightway, as we are invited to feed and feast sumptuously on God’s life-growing, life-strengthening and life-rewarding Word.

God’s Word is not only a lamp to our darkened feet and a light to our unknown pathway, but it is the same living, quickening and ever present Word that nourishes us.

It is the Word on which we still must feast, as did our forefathers, eons ago. It is the same Living Word of Father God, which we cannot live without. Listen to liberator and saviour Moses, the servant whom God used to bring His people out of bondage and lead them to the place of promise.

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Deuteronomy 8: 2 – 3.

I must tell you, that as I was reading these verses, straightway, I had an, Aha! Moment. When I saw that God, in His will and purpose, caused His children to hunger, so that He could feed them and teach them truth, a light of confirming grace fell upon me, as I was brought right back to our last week’s receiving.

The main Scripture text, or Word of God, on which we fed was this. For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. Romans 11: 32. With excitement, I saw it again, as plainly as ever, in another setting and sense. With nothing but the Spirit’s reasoning and His given understanding, what do we see, when we hear these words? He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna. Is it not true that it is God who bound His children over to hunger, humbling them, so that He may feed them with His miracle food? Does this not catapult you, without restraint, minus fear, and void of all human excuses and barriers, to boundless praise and thanks to God, who is definitely worthy of all praise, worship and power? Who is like our God?

O God, our Heavenly Father, there is none like You! Amen!

The Word of the Lord, which comes from His mouth, was food for our ancestors and it is food for us even now. Faith allows us to accept and agree that it is the very Presence of our Deliverer and Saviour, Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, ever present and ever working for us, who makes real and true, our time of unlimited feasting. He is our Feast for He is the Word of God made flesh, to us, for us and in us – all who by faith believe – all who accept Jesus as the Son of God.

During this week, we shall continue to feed sumptuously, as we are given grace and more grace, to reason together with our Lord, in undeniable learning.