From the beginning in the garden of Eden (and the word Eden means a paradise of unbroken fellowship and rich pleasure as this garden was God’s heart for man and woman), the subtle and crafty enemy of humankind challenged the truth of God’s communication to His offspring, Adam and Eve. Satan suggested, “Hath God said?” with the intent of challenging the goodness or blessedness of His Lordship in forbidding partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its deception of a life of independence from the Creator. As we know, Adam and Eve bought the lie about God and cut themselves off from the tree of life. 

Fast forward to our day, and we have the Holy Bible, God’s Covenant Book, again telling us of the way God has given to return to Him as our source of His satisfying eternal life. Jesus Christ once received as Savior and Lord is pure fulfillment to the human heart. John 14:6 records the Redeemer’s words, “I am ·the way, and the truth, and the life [orthe one true way to have life]. ·The only way to the Father is through me [No one comes to the Father except through me].” (EXB) And John 10:10 sets before us the reality about life in God vs. the death the enemy prowls around to bring. Jesus’ wake up call here is, “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” (AMPC)

The essential thing is to let the Person of Jesus be our very life—our feed. And, the way we feed on Jesus is through taking in His Word and spending time before Him drawing ever closer to His heart. We talk with Him and sit at His feet and listen. [We go within where He resides in our spirits by way of the new birth John 3; we are one with Him there, 1 Corinthians 6:17 reveals. His kingdom is inside us, John 17:21 states.] And we then partner with Him in becoming His yielded instruments of righteousness to realize His heavenly will done in us and through us on earth. 

Yet, as the antagonist of truth still comes with, “Hath God said?” when we are tempted to yield to that in us that is of Adam, it’s profitable to put before us what God declares about His commandments. The Bible is spiritually discerned i.e. deeper and deeper levels of experiencing it and understanding it open up as we obey it.