"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up
in your salvation," - 1 Peter 2:2
In 1978, Steve Bartkowski, quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, was beginning
his fourth season in the National Football League. He remembers after one
difficult preseason game: "I told myself "This is it - I have tried as hard as I
can in every game and things still continue to get worse. There is nothing else
I can do. There is no more ability left in me".
Alone in my room, I recalled that a man once told me how to become a Christian.
I bowed my head and repeated a simple prayer. I asked God to put HIS plan to
work in my life. I asked Christ to come into my life and take over as Number
One. Although, I wasn't sure at that moment what had happened, the one thing I
was sure of was the terrific sense of peace that came over me as I prayed. A
huge burden had been lifted. I knew I had had an encounter with the living Lord,
even though I was not sure how to explain it to anyone."
Steve describes his new attitude toward the Bible: "For years the Bible was a
dead book to me ... like grits without salt. But after I gave my life to Jesus
Christ, it became alive. I saw that the Bible was God's way of talking to me."
We need to crave our daily intake of the Bible just as we daily crave food.
Today in prayer, ask the Lord to give you a hunger for His Word and spend some
extra time today reading your Bible.
"Truth is perceived by the intellect, digested by the faith, and through the
constant in-breathing of the divine Spirit this digested truth is turned into
love, which constitutes the very life and substance of the spiritual man." -
G.D. Watson
God's Word: "The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to
the simple. I open my mouth and pant, longing for your commands." - Psalm
119:130-131
By Peter Kennedy, Copyright 2003, Devotional E-Mail DEVOTIONS IN THE BOOKS OF
PETER pkennedy@devotional.com
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