Scripture Reading: Psa. 119:25, 50, 57-58, 103, 105, 107, 130a, 135, 154; 1:2-3; John 1:4; Col. 2:7a; 2 Tim 3:16a; Col. 1:12; 2 Cor. 4:6; 3:16, 18
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Through the function of the Word of God, God's loving seekers receive the blessing of light becoming life—Psa. 119:130, 105, 25, 50:
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A great principle in the Bible is that light and life always go together; where light is, there is life—36:9; John 1:4; 8:12.
B
The Bible reveals that life comes from the shining of light and that the amount of life is in direct proportion to the amount of light—Gen. 1:3-25; 2 Cor. 4:6.
C
The Word of God gives us light, and then it enlivens us, giving us life—Psa. 119:25, 50, 107, 154:
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Although it is good to have light, the light must penetrate deeper until it becomes life.
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When light goes deeper, reaching into our spirit, it becomes life, and we receive the life supply—Mal. 4:2.
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Through the function of the Word of God, God's loving seekers receive the blessing of being watered and of absorbing God—Psa. 1:2-3:
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God's loving seekers experience the blessing of being watered by the Word:
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When the Word becomes water in our spirit, we receive its nourishment, for the food supply is in the water—Isa. 55:1; Rev. 22:1-2.
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If we would be watered by the Word, we must have proper roots and the fine root hairs, which absorb the life supply—Mark 4:5-6, 17; Luke 8:6.
B
God's loving seekers experience the blessing of absorbing God through the Word—Col. 2:7a:
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As believers in Christ, we are living plants rooted in Christ, and now through our roots we are absorbing the riches of the processed and consummated Triune God into our being—1 Cor. 3:9; Col. 2:19.
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If we contact the Lord and spend time in the Word with much prayer, we will absorb God into us to be the element that causes us to grow.
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If we would absorb God, we need to have tender, new roots; therefore, we should not let ourselves get old but be fresh, revived, and renewed day by day—2 Cor. 4:16; Lam. 3:22-23.
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Through the function of the Word of God, God's loving seekers receive the blessing of inhaling God—2 Tim. 3:16a:
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To say that all Scripture is God-breathed is to say that the Bible is the breath, the breathing out, of God, who is Spirit:
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Because the Bible is the breathing out of God, the Bible has the element of God.
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The Bible is not only the breathing out of God but is God Himself breathed into His word.
B
God has breathed Himself out in the Word so that we can inhale Him, breathe Him in, through the Word:
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God has breathed Himself out in the Scriptures, and thus our reading of the Scriptures should be the receiving of God's breath.
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When God breathes Himself out, He exhales Himself; and when we contact God through the Word, we inhale God.
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Through the function of the Word of God, God's loving seekers receive the blessing of enjoying God as their portion—Psa. 119:57a; 73:26:
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The highest blessing is the enjoyment of God Himself as our portion—Num. 6:22-27; 2 Cor. 13:14.
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When we have God as our portion, we have God Himself as everything to us.
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The more we come to the Bible in the proper way, the more the Author of this book—God Himself—becomes our portion—Psa. 73:26.
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God can be our portion because in the Word, by the Word, and through the Word He is real, present, practical, enjoyable, and available to us—119:103; 34:8.
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Through the function of the Word of God, God's loving seekers receive the blessing of enjoying God's countenance and the shining of His face—119:58a, 135a; 80:3; 24:6; 105:4; 2 Cor. 4:6; 3:16, 18:
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As seekers of God, the psalmists lovingly sought God in a deeply personal and intimate way, seeking the help of His countenance and asking for the shining of His face—Psa. 42:5; 80:3.
B
In the blessing in Numbers 6:25-26 we have both the face and the coun-tenance:
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The face denotes the presence of a person, and the countenance denotes the expression of the person.
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When the processed and consummated Triune God is dispensed into us through the function of the Word, we have the face of God and also His countenance—2 Cor. 13:14; 4:6.
C
If we are faithful in contacting the Lord through the Word, we will experience the shining of His face—4:6; 3:16, 18:
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Like Moses, we all, with an unveiled face, should be on the mountaintop under the shining of the face of God—Exo. 24:15-18; 2 Cor. 3:16.
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Our desire should be, through the Word, to remain under this pleasant delightful shining, staying with God, being infused with God, and glowing with God—Exo. 34:29; 2 Cor. 3:18.