Importance Of The Word

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When asked to do this essay I immediately started looking to all the things I am week in. Of coarse all of us want to not be weak in any area but there are always going to be something we are going to have to work on. But as I started to look at my weaknesses I realized the root of a lot of them. I traced a lot of my weaknesses back to one thing. It was my hunger for the word. I always hear that you hunger for what you feed on. I experience this in almost every aspect of my life. I start playing a sport and all the sudden, that was all I wanted to do. I started eating at chilis and all the sudden, that’s all I ate. I hadn’t realized it but I didn’t need a chemical to make any of those things addictive. I created the addiction. So in knowing that, I tried to create an addiction for Gods word but I failed miserably. Because I had not asked for help. I’m also realizing that I can do nothing on my own. Everything that I seek to do on my own will fail without help from God. So what made me think that I alone could create a passion for His word? Well, it was the subtle lie of self sufficiency.
“The rain and the snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to. And it will prosper everywhere I send it,” (Isaiah 55:10 - 11). I don’t know if you have noticed but if it is going to rain, you can’t stop it. You might run for a while but eventually you are going to get wet. God’s word is very similar if you want to press in. Everything in Gods word is intended to change you into the man or woman God has created you to be. And no one can stop what Gods word says to be true. I want to be fruitful and grow like the land that was soaked from the heavens. Through this verse I saw a promise of grow...