Truth Matters Daily 11 01 2021

This is Truth Matters Daily Devotion with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of the Truth Project whose mission is to empower men and women in the Christian faith to teach Biblical truth in the culture and the marketplace of ideas, using the Bible as a sacred trust of truth in sharing the message of Jesus. Learn more about the ministry of the Truth Project at www.projecttruthmatters.com. And Ezekiel, our host, explains.

Hello, I'm Dr. Cheryl Davis and you are listening to Truth Matters. The mandate from heaven comes as he is told to approach the angel of Jehovah and take the small book from him and eat it. And if you notice in the visions of Ezekiel, he had a very similar experience. In Ezekiel 2 verse 8, it reads like this, but you son of man, hear what I say to you.

Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you. Now when I look, there was a hand stretched out to me and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. Then he spread it before me.

There was writing on the inside and on the outside and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe. Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll and go and speak to the house of Israel. So I open my mouth and he calls me to eat that scroll. And he said to me, Son of man, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.

So I ate and it was in my mouth like honey in the in sweetness. The message tasted sweet to John also it tasted sweet to Ezekiel, but it did not sit too well in the stomach. But oftentimes we're not it is not to physically eat the word, you know, like eating the pages of the book, but it is to absorb to take it in figuratively.

You know, we're only to eat it figuratively, but really what it's meant to be is to absorb it to take it in, to assimilate it into ourself and our consciousness. God's plan is sweet for us to taste, but the reality of judgment to come upon this world brings bitterness to the inner man. Prophecy is often sweet to the taste, but bitter in application. And we see this for Ezekiel, we also see it for John.

In verse 11, John is told to prophesy again, only after he has assimilated into his life. Too often, we traffic undigested truth, we find the Word of God and we get the message behind in the attentive scripture, but we preach it having not applied it to our own lives. You know, and I've had a number of struggles in my life, maybe one day I'll get to tell you about many of those in this program. But what I've learned, I've been sitting in my quiet time and asking the Lord, why were all these struggles necessary? What he spoke to my spirit was that if I had not had struggles, I would not really have anything to say. All I would have to offer is something that I've read, or trafficking undigested truth, truth that I had not lived out in my own life. So the Lord sent the struggles in my life to have a truth that I can preach and teach with conviction, having had my own personal experience. So we must assimilate it into our lives, into our souls, into our consciousness, so that we can traffic digested truth. You know, God's Word is compared to food many times in the Bible. It is compared to bread in Matthew chapter four, verse four.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. This is the ministry of the Truth Project, a North Carolina-based ministry dedicated to teaching biblical truth and sound theology to those inside and outside of the church. If you'd like to listen to these messages on demand, go to ProjectTruthMatters.com and click on the podcast link. Dr. Davis is also available to speak to your ministry group or church function. She can be reached by email at CherylDavisatProjectTruthMatters.com. Or if you'd like to send a letter, the address is Project Truth Matters, Post Office Box 159, St. Paul's, North Carolina 28384. You can hear Truth Matters weekdays on this radio station at 8 20 a.m. and 5 20 p.m. for the full length teaching program on Saturday afternoon at 12 30. Until next time, let's all work together to teach a biblical truth, to assist, equip, edify and encourage one another and bring the gospel to the world. Because truth matters.