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“And He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise…and He…commanded that something should be given her to eat” (Mark 5:41,43).
You can see the connection between our verses for today, and what we had yesterday. A healthy person wants natural food, and a person who is spiritually healthy wants spiritual food. But the young girl in Mark 5 had evidently been sick for some time, and when we are sick we usually are not hungry. We may drink liquids, but we do not want solid food. Then the girl became so sick that she died. When the Lord Jesus brought her back to life, she was instantly back in good health, and He told them to give her something to eat. He knew that she would be hungry!
If we are spiritually sick because we are away from the Lord, we do not want to read the Word of God either. We have no desire for it, because we are not spiritually healthy. What we need is to get back to the Lord and to get healed. Then once again our hearts will want that spiritual food from the Word of God.
If you are a true Christian, yet have no desire to read your Bible, perhaps you need to ask yourself, Am I spiritually sick?
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