If we wish to be clean, we need to do the same with the Scriptures and with every other form of God's Word. The purpose is to get every bit of nutrition that they can from the food they eat. 6:17).Īnimals that chew the cud bring their food back up to be chewed on again and again. Again, you can follow the link above to find the abundant scriptural and historical testimony to this truth, but for now it is only important to know that we are called to be "clean animals." We are to ruminate (meditate) on the Word of God and to separate from the world (part the hoof cf. Under the Old Covenant, earthly Israel was only to eat animals that ruminated (chewed the cud) and parted the hoof. Food laws especially are easy to apply once we understand them in their fullness, the ripe, new wine to be put in wineskins refreshed by the oil of the Holy Spirit (Mk. I delve into this much more deeply at The Christian and the Law of Moses on my Christian history site, but for now. I am not an expert on either language, so I don't engage in or believe arguments from the Greek unless they are backed up by someone who is an expert.Īpparently these methods work, at least for me, because originally I was going to cover all the way to the end of the chapter (v.
In this case, I sat on this "Through the Bible" post for several days. When I run across a passage that doesn't leap out at me, I do several things, especially when I'm supposed to write publicly or teach the church about it. Here are some methods I use when Bible-reading seems slow, difficult, or unimportant.
It is worth meditating on them and "getting" wisdom and understanding from them, even if it is hard. It is worth mining the Scriptures and giving time to them. We should make use of the Scriptures so that we come to him with wisdom. Jesus is our "great God and Savior" (Tit. I chose to reference the "deep wells of salvation" because Paul told Timothy that the Scriptures "are able to make you wise for salvation" (1 Tim. It just happened to be work for me to get to those treasures. It is "pure Word." It's deep, rich, accomplishes what it is sent to do, and comes from the infallible, all-wise God that we serve. Please understand that I am not saying that our passage is underwhelming.
#BIBLE VERSE ABOUT WIDOWS AND ORPHANS KJV HOW TO#
I found our passage today somewhat underwhelming, so our emphasis is going to be how to draw the Word of the Lord from readings like this. Isaiah 1:21-23: Widows, Orphans, and Greedy Rulers