Your spirit isn't broken, it's hungry for God's Word. Scripture tastes like honey and works like a two-edged sword, cutting through to refine you from inside. Feed yourself with the Bible, not empty decorations.
The secret to spiritual strength is feeding your spirit man the Word of God. And when it cracks, decoration is all that is left to hide the void. I've decorated enough sanctuaries, including the one inside my own chest right now, to know that paint does not hold up a ceiling. Bread does. The Word of God does. What Ezekiel tasted when he ate the scroll, he said, it is honey in my mouth. That is what reading your Bible was always supposed to feel like. And if it has not tasted like that in a while, you're not broken. You're not broken at all. You are hungry. You're hungry for the word of God. And hungry is the right posture for what God is about to do in this room this morning. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, What the Lord is going to do to every single one of us and do with every single one of us this morning. The word is lecturing us. The word is studying us. We just learned the word kritikos. It is the word is a discerner. It is an examiner. Kritikos. You say, Pastor, the word is examining me. Yes, it is kritikos. K. R-I-T-I-K-O-S. It is the Greek word for the word discerner, examiner. The word is examining us. It is a two-edged sword, sharp, but it understands the inner working of our hearts.
