Bible League: Living His Word Like newborn babies hungry for milk, you should want the pure teaching that feeds your spirit. With it you can grow up and be saved.We can act like adults and we can act like babies. When it comes to the Word of God, our verse for today says that we should act like babies. Indeed, newborn babies. When the Apostle Peter wrote this he must have had Jesus' words in the back of his mind, "The truth is, you must change your thinking and become like little children. If you don't do this, you will never enter God's kingdom" (Matthew 18:3). When it comes to the Word of God, we must accept it on faith without question, like little children, like babies. The reason why we should act like babies is that the Word of God is pure teaching that feeds our spirits. God's Word is revelation from God Himself. We should never question God's veracity, just as little children never question their parent's veracity. The Word of God is good for us. It feeds us and sustains us. It gives us the proper perspective on life and it helps us to set the proper course for our lives. Without the Word of God to light up our path we are lost souls wandering blindly around in the darkness (Psalm 119:105). Ironically enough, when we receive the Word of God like children we are turned into full-fledged adults. We grow up when we are fed the Word of God. Instead of acting like undisciplined, unschooled children, we act like adults. We act like people who know what life is all about and who know where they fit in life. The person who has been fed the Word of God and has grown up is a person who has found the way of salvation. Everyone has a choice to make. When confronted with the Word of God we can act like babies and grow up to be adults who have found salvation or we can act like adults and shrink down to the level of a child who does not know the way of salvation. We must daily set aside the proud adult in us with all its doubts and questions and humble ourselves like little children before the Word of God that can save us. Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingJudges 15, 16, 17 Judges 15 -- Samson Burns the Philistine Crops NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Judges 16 -- Samson and Delilah; Samson's Capture and Death NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Judges 17 -- Micah's Idolatry NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading Luke 10:1-24 Luke 10 -- Jesus Sends out the Seventy-two; Good Samaritan; Martha and Mary's House NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Insight Love and kindness are important character qualities. Both involve actions as well as attitudes. A loving person not only feels love; he or she also acts loyally and responsibly. A kind person works for justice for others. Challenge Thoughts and words are not enough—our lives reveal whether we are truly loving and kind. Do your actions measure up to your attitudes? Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Proverbs 15:33 Before honor is humility.Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self, God will fill them with his love. He who desires close communion with Christ should remember the word of the Lord, "To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." Stoop if you would climb to heaven. Do we not say of Jesus, "He descended that he might ascend?" So must you. You must grow downwards, that you may grow upwards; for the sweetest fellowship with heaven is to be had by humble souls, and by them alone. God will deny no blessing to a thoroughly humbled spirit. "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," with all its riches and treasures. The whole exchequer of God shall be made over by deed of gift to the soul which is humble enough to be able to receive it without growing proud because of it. God blesses us all up to the full measure and extremity of what it is safe for him to do. If you do not get a blessing, it is because it is not safe for you to have one. If our heavenly Father were to let your unhumbled spirit win a victory in his holy war, you would pilfer the crown for yourself, and meeting with a fresh enemy you would fall a victim; so that you are kept low for your own safety. When a man is sincerely humble, and never ventures to touch so much as a grain of the praise, there is scarcely any limit to what God will do for him. Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace, and fits us to deal efficiently with our fellow men. True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden. This is a sauce with which you may season every dish of life, and you will find an improvement in every case. Whether it be prayer or praise, whether it be work or suffering, the genuine salt of humility cannot be used in excess. Daily Light on the Daily Path Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." Isaiah 41:4 "Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? 'I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'" Jude 1:1 Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: 1 Thessalonians 5:23,24 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. • Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Psalm 138:8 The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands. Philippians 2:13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 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