Pray-Reading The Word
PRAY-READING THE WORD
When a baby is born, his most immediate need is to take some milk for nourishment. Without nourishment the new babe will not only fail to grow properly, but will soon become very weak and eventually even die. After we are saved and born again, our most immediate need also is that we learn how to take in the Lord as our spiritual milk and nourishment. Without this spiritual nourishment, we also have no way to grow prop erly and will in a short time be spiritually dead.
In the Gospels, the Lord Jesus presents Him self as a feast for us to drink and eat. He says in John 4 that He is the living water for us to drink. In the sixth chapter of the same book, He says that He is the bread of life to be eaten. Then the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 12 that we "were all given to drink one Spirit." We drink Him, we eat Him, and thereby enjoy Him and receive Him as our spiritual nourishment.
We have to praise the Lord that Jesus Christ has presented Himself to us as a feast to meet all our need and to be all our supply. We all know