Mike’s Musings …
How Hungry and Thirsty Are You?
”Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:6)
Professionals call it “continuing education.” Some would call it” advanced education.” Christians have called it “revival,” or more commonly, “gospel meeting.” Whatever you wish to call these times of assembling, when the Lord’s children gather daily for the fellowship of singing, praying, and studying from God’s word, it is a time of feasting: filling our souls with the bread from heaven (John 6:35), and quenching our spiritual thirst with the living water provided from His refreshing fountain! (John 4:10)
The Lord’s willing, beginning today and continuing throughout this week, six different gospel preachers will deliver nourishing meals for our souls. Their lessons will benefit every need of every soul intent on gaining from these meals. For those who need encouragement, they will exhort. For those who need correction, they will admonish obedience. For those who are babes in the faith, there will be enough milk of the word to satisfy their needs. For those of maturity, there will be enough meat to sustain us through another day. (Hebrews 5:12 – 14) Every soul can be filled to the full if we listen, learn, and obey!
But let’s remember to ‘bring a big enough basket” to these feasts! When the Lord fed more than five thousand with only five loaves of bread and two small fish, remember His disciples gathered up twelve baskets full of the leftovers. Nothing was wasted! Whether the disciples used these baskets of food or they were given to others, we are not told. Regardless, it was not discarded but collected for profitable use. By that same principle, every particle of God’s word spoken to us this week is useful: we must leave nothing behind but utilize it all to God’s purpose in our hungering and thirsty souls!
I muse on not only the immediate prosperity of gospel meetings, but more importantly, the eternal prosperity of these feasts! No one will ever consume too much of God’s truth: the danger is not consuming enough to save the soul. Bring your bible, your notebook, and pen, and most importantly, your readiness to imbibe every morsel possible from every sermon preached, so that when we leave the building each night, we leave full, and yet hungering enough to come back and feast again on God’s word!