Eating Habits

(Psalm 119:15) “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.”

Often silence is wiser than speech. It would be a healthy virtue to spend more of our time meditating on God’s Word. There is so little peace in our daily activities, we are always doing and yet seldom accomplishing. However, when we stop and gather our thoughts and remember the work of Calvary and meditate on the Lord’s precepts, it’s like David says. “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.” That still quite place is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Often when reflecting on the course of my life, I am left asking, why? The answer is always the same and it is the same for all who ask this question. Did I take counsel from the Word of God; do I believe that in the counsel of many my plans will succeed?

“Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.” (Proverbs 15:22) 

Obviously as we have already established in psalm 1, that counsel must come from those who have the Spirit of Christ living within them. We must muse upon the Word of God for that is where we receive our nourishment. Truth is often like a cluster of grapes on the vine; if we are to have wine from it we must press, prod and bruise it; we must trample it hard with precision otherwise much of its juices will be wasted. Paul tells Timothy to “have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness.” For its benefits will be reaped in this life and the life to come.

Our body’s sustenance does not come from merely chewing and swallowing, the process that supplies nourishment to our muscles and sinew is digestion. In like manner it is not enough just to attend a church or read your bible; we must eat and then digest to reap the full benefit of the meal. We must press the cluster of grapes to get its full benefit. No, you do not just believe it because someone has said it, you must examine it for yourself; remember, “Let God be true and every man a liar.” Digesting our spiritual food helps us with our inner life. We must hear, read, mark, and learn, these all need digestion to complete their usefulness.

“The inward digesting of the truth lies for the most part in meditating upon it.” (C.H.Spurgeon)

We must wrestle with uncertain truths and with the many voices with differing conclusions. Remember the tenacity of Jacob, he would not let the angel go until he received a blessing, it was costly, he walked with a limp the rest of his days, but he received the blessing.

Now with this thought encapsulating my mind, how and when on consideration was my Christian walk on track or when had I vied off course and found myself on some dingy dark dangerous road. I always ended up in some dark boulevard when meditation was not high on my daily agenda. We must love the wheat but must also be prepared to grind it. We now walk in the stream of life, where the water flows with abundance, but we must remember to stoop down and drink from it. May our resolution for today be; “we will meditate on thy precepts.”

Signing off

Tyrone