As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice,
I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house,
who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came,
the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
Luke 6:47-48
The mission statement of Feed the Hunger is to feed the spiritual and physical hunger in the needy. You are well familiar that providing nutritious meals to at-risk children and families is currently our primary focus on the physical hunger side. Included on the spiritual hunger side is not only meeting these kinds of needs in our partner countries, but also the spiritual hunger in ourselves. We are all “needy” because we are lost without the Lord. We need His guidance every day through His Word, the Holy Spirit, and other humble believers.
In the first devotional I wrote, The Search for Truth, we took a journey together through misused and misquoted Bible verses and sayings. I hope you have read it and were edified by it. If you would like a free hard copy booklet of this first study, just email us: info@feedthehunger.org or call: 1-888-772-9634.
God has burdened me – particularly this year – to encourage other believers to dig deeper into His Word. So much of our exposure to the Scriptures is through sound bites that we are spoon fed, often from questionable sources (Hebrews 5:12-14). We take little or no effort to read entire Bible passages or to study the historical and cultural perspectives of the verse or verses in question.
This next devotional continues this journey, and with a noticeable Jewish emphasis. My goal is to encourage you into your own deeper study of the Bible and other additional resources. Therefore, it only made sense to use the title, Digging Deeper. Most of these daily devotionals fall into one of two categories:
- Things in the Bible that you might be completely unaware of
- Things that are in the Bible but there is a lack of understanding as to the likely meaning
For example, when you read a particular story and you see a word or phrase like “Sadducee”, “casting lots”, or “speaking in tongues”, do you keep on reading or do you seek to understand? There are also words and details that you may not have known were in the Bible because you haven’t read every page of it. My hope is that this study will spur you on towards that kind of deep, spiritual journey of understanding.
