How do you feel about studying the Word of God? Do you hunger and thirst for more knowledge or do you find it difficult to study?  When I first yielded to the Holy Spirit to lead me into understanding the Word of God it was like a new beginning.  I could not get enough of reading this fantastic record of God working in the lives of His people.  The promises to God's children are enough to make you want to search the scriptures daily.  One of my favorite Bible verses is "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.  The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.  But the man who loves God is known by God. "   1 Cor. 8:1 - 3  This is probably one of my favorites because I know so little. 

The more we study the Bible the more enlightened we become; and the more certain we are that we still need to learn so much.  When we study the Word more, we will  hunger for it as it is written     " How sweet are thy words unto my taste: yea sweeter than honey and the honeycomb to my mouth."   Psalm 119:103 

As we are enlightened by the Word of God we want more.  Proverbs 119:130  "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple."      I remember still the first time my head knowledge became heart knowledge.  It was like a light suddenly turned on and though I thought I knew before; then I was certain I knew that particular Word as never before.  It is only 18 inches from the head to the heart but only when the word is quickened to us by the Holy Spirit does it become heart knowledge so that we can walk in it (or act upon it).  We can do nothing of ourselves as Jesus said. "For without me you can do nothing." John 15:5;  "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit:  so shall ye be my disciples." John 15:7 - 8  We were given the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth and He will if we yield to Him and study the word as often as possible.  God desires this fellowship time with us. We were created for His pleasure and He wants to talk with us and share great and marvelous things with us. 

Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. 

2 Peter 1: 19  And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 

Matthew Henry commentary.
"When the light of the scripture is darted into the blind mind and dark understanding by the Holy Spirit of God, then the spiritual day dawns and the day-star arises in that soul.  This enlightening of a dark benighted mind is like the day-break that improves and advances, spreads and diffuses itself through the whole soul, till it makes perfect day,  Prov. 4:18.   It is a growing knowledge; those who are this way enlightened never think they know enough, till they come to know as they are known. To give heed to this light must needs be the interest and duty of all; and all who do truth come to this light, while evil-doers keep at a distance from it." 

My prayer for us is "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto us the spirit  of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: Ephesians 1:17

                                 Blessings,
                                   Vivian

Oh, How Much I Love Your Law!
(Psalm 119: 97-112) 


© copyright: Elizabeth & John Tolson 2000.

Oh, how much I love Your law
I would read it all day long.
Your commands will make me wiser
Than all those who do me wrong.
With more insight than my teachers,
If I will obey Your law;
I will have more understanding,
If I just obey Your law. 

I have shunn'd the evil path
So I might obey Your word.
Laws which You Yourself have taught me
And I would obey You, Lord.
Sweeter than the taste of honey
Are the words within Your Law.
I will gain more understanding
If I will obey Your law. 

Like a lamp Your word has been
Showing me the way ahead;
By its light I see the pathway
And no evil will I dread.
I have set my heart on keeping,
To the very end, Your law.
Lord, accept this praise I offer;
Teach me to obey Your law.