Chapter
Five - Scripture Feeding of SELF; Dessert
God
put me together, taste buds first... or so I think. Especially when
it comes to dessert. I can remember the dessert at my last dinner
meal – and sometimes I can remember the dessert two meals ago. For
me and my family, our desserts represent something of a mental
aftertaste, which often sprout their own advertising. This brings
scriptural desserts into the metaphor of our whole feeding on
scripture, as good stewards.
If
there was anything that ought to spark 'advertising' of good things
in our past, it should be God's precious inspired word, stated in our
Bibles. But this aftertaste/advertising of memorable portions of
scripture; maybe just discovered by us personally, goes far beyond
'yummy' truths. The Old Testament commandment God drilled into His
nation Israel, said, in effect, “Love, honor, and obey me,
remembering I was the One Who brought you up and out of Egypt.”
On
this side of Calvary, it's critical that you and I remember all of
the provisions and promises Christ has given each of us individually.
So often it's more effective for us to visually be reminded of things
that affect our living, both good and bad. The practice is quite
common for us to visually remind others of sacrifices (in blood) our
military has (and is) paying for our freedom, by posting a ribbon on
our vehicles and elsewhere. I find it exciting that in FEEDING on
scripture, rather than just reading (often skimming) scripture, the
use of the remembrance ribbon was commanded, in Numbers 15:38-40:
“Speak
unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes
in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and
that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And
it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and
remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye
seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use
to go a whoring: That ye may remember, and do all my commandments,
and be holy unto your God.”
Scriptural
Dessert
In
today's communication capability, we must be daily cautioned to be
faithful in reminding those around us, of the sacrifice (in blood)
Jesus Christ and also martyrs for the faith that have fought for our
freedom; freedoms from an eternal existence in the fires of Hell.
Honestly, I believe that many so-called Christians should be ashamed,
by the way they squander God's gift of tech communication, by never
mentioning God's gift of blood-bought salvation. Instead, text
messages are almost entirely meaningless words, sent to the broken
hearts and dreams of others. [~]
