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| Hungering for Spiritual Food |
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| ¡°I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.¡± ( Job 23:12 , KJV ) |
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Vietnam prisoner-of-war, Howard Rutledge, dying from starvation, thankful for a ¡°bowl of sewer greens,¡± found that ¡°my hunger for spiritual food soon outdid my hunger for a steak.¡± Now, he said, ¡°I wanted to know about that part of me that will never die... I had completely neglected the spiritual dimension of my life.¡± He recalled, Now I wanted to talk about God and Christ and the church. But in the heartbreak of solitary confinement there was ¡°no Sunday school teacher, no Bible, no hymnbook, no community of believers to guide and sustain me.¡±
¡°I tried desperately to recall snatches of Scripture, sermons, the gospel choruses from childhood, and the hymns we sang at church... I had not seen [during eighteen years in a Tulsa Sunday school] the importance of memorizing verses from the Bible or learning gospel songs.¡± ¡°Now, when I needed them,¡± Rutledge said, ¡°it was too late.¡±
¡°Just to think,¡± he said, ¡°about one memorized verse could have made a whole day bearable.¡± But he added, ¡°One portion of a verse I did remember was, ¡®Thy word have I hid in my heart.¡¯ How often I wished I had really worked to hide God¡¯s Word in my heart.¡± |
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Our Father, ¡°open Thou our eyes that we may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.¡± We pray, in Jesus¡¯ name. Amen. - HUGO McCORD, Portland, Oregon |
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