TRUE
WEALTH COMES NOT FROM THE WORLD BUT THE WORD
BREAD
127 Because
I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold, 128 and because I consider all
your precepts right, I hate every wrong path.
Psalms 119:127-128 (NIV)
7 The
law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord
are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts of the Lord
are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The
ordinances of the Lord are sure
and altogether righteous. 10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. 11 By them is your servant
warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Psalms 19:7-11 (NIV)
72 The
law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver
and gold.
Psalms 119:72 (NIV)
10 Choose
my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold, 11 for wisdom is more precious
than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Proverbs 8:10-11 (NIV)
12 “But
where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell? 13 Man does not comprehend its
worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living. 14 The deep says, ‘It is not in
me’; the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ 15 It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its
price be weighed in silver. 16 It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with
precious onyx or sapphires. 17 Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can
it be had for jewels of gold. 18 Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the price
of wisdom is beyond rubies. 19 The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be
bought with pure gold. 20 Where
then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?....... 23 God understands the way to it
and he alone knows where it dwells, 24 for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything
under the heavens.”
Job 28:12-20, 23-24 (NIV)
BUTTER
“The
rabbis spoke of the text being like a gem with seventy faces, and each time you
turn the gem, the light refracts differently, giving you a reflection you
haven’t seen before. And so we turn the
text again and again because we keep seeing things we missed before. When you embrace the text as living and
active, when you enter its story, when you keep turning the gem, you never come
to the end. Inspired words have a way of
getting under our skin and taking on a life of their own. They work on us. We started out reading them, but they end up
reading us.” Rob Bell
The richness of
God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Our
claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or
God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that
Scripture is, in fact, God’s Word written, which therefore is true and reliable
and has divine authority over men.” John Stott
“When
you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ‘It is talking
to me, and about me.’” Soren
Kierkegaard
“God
alone knows the depth and riches of His Godhead, and divine wisdom alone can
declare His secrets.” Thomas
Aquinas
“Now when a man
has learned through the commandments to recognize his helplessness and is
distressed about how he might satisfy the law…and then being truly humbled and
reduced to nothing in his own eyes, he finds in himself nothing whereby he may
be justified and saved. Here the second
part of Scripture comes to our aid, namely, the promises of God which declare
the glory of God, saying, ‘If you wish to fulfill the law….come, believe in
Christ in whom grace, righteousness, peace, liberty, and all things are
promised to you. If you believe you
shall have all things; if you do not believe, you shall lack all things’.” Martin
Luther, On Christian Liberty
“If the Word does
not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.” John Owen
“His
wisdom’s vast, and knows no bounds, a deep where all our thoughts are drowned.” Isaac
Watts
HEART SAVOR
- · God’s Word is more precious than gold – than much pure gold.
- · There is great reward in following God’s ways.
- · God’s Word is perfect reviving my soul.
