--Billy Graham, the renowned American Evangelist, once described his struggle to accept the Bible as completely true. One night as he walked alone in the moonlight at a retreat center in the San Bernadino Mountains, he dropped to his knees and placed his Bible on a tree stump, able only to "stutter" a prayer: "Oh, God! There are many things in this book I do not understand."
By confessing his confusion, Graham said the Holy Spirit finally "freed me to say to say it. "Father, I am going to accept this as thy Word--by faith!" When he stood up he still had questions, but he said "I knew a spiritual battle in my soul had been fought and won."
The young prophet Jeremiah fought spiritual battle too. Yet he consistently sought answers in Scripture. "When your words came, "I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight" (Jeremiah 15:16). He declared, "The word of the LORD...is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up on my bones" (20:8-9) Nineteenth-century evangelist Charles Spurgeon wrote, "[Jeremiah] lets us into a secret. His outer life especially his faithful ministry, was due to his inward love of the word which he preached." We too can shape our life through the wisdom of Scripture despite our struggles. We can keep studying, as always. By faith, believing. We read the Word, meditate upon it, and live it in our daily lives. ~~
-[If the song is missing, please find it on the internet by Kim Walker-Smith, and be blessed] --ODB/PR ---"LOVE HAS A NAME / Jesus Culture // JESUS ' <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5x_udKqrXA> ~~~~~~~~~~~
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
