The drive out to church yesterday on Spring Street was about the slipperiest I can remember.
Once we arrived, however, it sure was great to be here.
It seemed that, though many didn’t make it out, those who did come were eager to sing, pray, respond to the Word, and fellowship with one another.
Amy and I shared in many great conversations about what the Lord is doing through His Word and by His Spirit.
I enjoyed preparing and delivering that message on the belt of truth.
Here is something on treasuring the Word of truth that I did not have time to include yesterday. It is from J.C. Philpot:
Feeding on the Word as the Bread of Life
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63
It is through the word that the soul in the first instance is cleansed. It is by the word that the soul is begotten again unto eternal life. It is, too, by the word applied to the heart that the blessed Spirit from time to time keeps alive communion with the Lord Jesus Christ. Is it not so in vital experience? Some passage of Scripture drops into the soul, some promise comes warm into the heart, and as it comes it makes way for itself. It enters the heart, breaks down the feelings, melts the soul, and draws forth living faith to flow unto and centre alone in the “altogether lovely.”
There are many times, through mercy, when the word of God is made sweet and precious to us; when we can say, with the prophet of old, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart” (Jer. 15:16). It was so in the case of David. He says, they are “more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb” (Psalm 19:10). When this is felt, the sure effect is to bring the soul into communion with the Lord Jesus, who is the true word of God, and makes use of the written word to draw us near unto himself.