I N F I N I T E   S U P P L Y

June 6, 2007

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Today's meditation is taken from:

ENTER THE KINGDOM
by Chip Brogden


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"Martha had a sister named Mary, who sat at His feet and kept on
listening to His Word" (Luke 10:39).

There are two elements here: she sat at His feet, and she heard His
Word. We must sit at His feet and hear for ourselves. We can hear His
Word through other vessels - the pastor, the teacher, the prophet, a
devotional, a television program, a book. In spite of an abundance of
vessels we are very dull in our hearing. We are well-versed in "the
things of the Lord"; nevertheless we are quite shallow. Why? We have
missed the Lord for ourselves. We have not sat down at His feet
personally, we are consulting and conferring with flesh and blood,
receiving second, third, or fourth-generational teaching. If this is
our situation then we have no root in ourselves and we are apt to
wither during the heat of the day.

You must sit at His feet and hear Him for yourself. Entering into the
Lord's thought, becoming acquainted with His Ways as well as His
Word, takes the sort of love-devotion Mary demonstrates. The Greek
here is continuous action: she "kept on listening". Martha listened
too, but when she arose to prepare dinner, Mary remained. As we
progress we will see that Mary has discovered spirit and truth, and
from henceforth she is always at the feet of the Lord in one way or
the other.