David loved the Word of God. The 119th Psalm is all about the wonderful Word. Almost every one of the 176 verses speaks of it. In the ninety-seventh verse he says, “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” Ten more times he mentions how much he loved the Scriptures (vv.47, 48, 97, 113, 119, 127, 140, 159, 163, and 167).
A Christian cannot love the Word and the world at the same time. If you have lost your appetite for the Word, it is sure you are feeding on the leeks and garlic of Egypt. You can always spot such a person. Garlic has a distinct odor.
If you have wandered away from the Word, and have brought shame upon Christ and yourself, you are by no way finished. You can begin again. Peter’s embarrassing experience testifies to this. “And Peter remembered the word of Jesus…And he went out, and wept bitterly.” Nothing will revive again like the Word. Men are likened unto trees in the Bible, and water to the Word.
Therefore Job says: "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant."
(Job 14:7-9)
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