Word of Christ In Our Heart

CHRIST'S MESSAGE IN ALL ITS RICHNESS MUST LIVE IN YOUR HEARTS. TEACH AND INSTRUCT ONE ANOTHER WITH ALL WISDOM. SING PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SACRED SONGS; SING TO GOD WITH THANKSGIVING IN YOUR HEARTS. Col 3.16.

There is plaque on my table in my surgery with the words, “To have found God is not the end but the beginning!” We live in times when cheap conversions are on the rise and eternal truths are peddled like barter trading – “If you accept Jesus, He will do this or that for you”. Today, we need to proclaim loud and clear the crucial truth, “To have accepted Jesus or said the sinner’s prayer is not the end but the beginning!

In order for you as a believer to have a living and growing relationship with your Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ, you should acquire an increasing knowledge of His Word. To know Jesus but not to know His Word that tells of His plan and purpose for you will do no good for you. God’s will for you is revealed only in His Word, the Bible. What you get from the pulpit from your pastor or preacher each Sunday is like a pittance in a beggars bowl compared to God’s Word ! What a pity the vast majority of God’s people of today are satisfied with that! They are far too busy to spend a little time with God and His Word, to get to know Him better and to be fed each day with strong meat for greater spiritual growth. Are you worldly prosperous but spiritually impoverished!

The apostle Peter taught the believers, “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pe 3,18). A seed needs to be cultivated – watered, manured – to grow and become a fruitful tree! A new born child needs to be fed and cared for to grow into a mature human being! How then, do you, a believer, expect to grow and become a fruitful Christian for God and among men without taking time to grow in the Word?

Jesus told the twelve disciples who were the chosen apostles and had the privilege of being with Him day and night, ‘You must abide/remain in Me and My words must remain/abide in you’. “If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned” (Jn 15.6-8).

The Lord God Almighty commanded His servant Joshua, “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful” (Jos 1.8). Even before that, God told the Israelites, “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates” (Deut 6.6-9).

Dear believer, do you think that God really wants you to do it? What you think matters little but those who heed it will become great and successful like Joshua! The choice is yours!!

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, help me to decide today to make time to let the Word of Christ dwell in me richly so that I may even teach and admonish others with all wisdom. Amen.