EAT FAST, PAY LESS: My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You... PSALM 63:1... A hotel in Singapore introduced an express buffet, eat all you can in thirty minutes and pay just half the price! After that experience, one diner reported: I lost my decorum, stuffing my mouth with yet more food. I lost my civility, and I lost my appetite for the rest of the day, so severe was my heartburn. Sometimes I think in our devotional reading we treat Gods Word like an express buffet. We wolf it down as fast as we can and wonder why we havent learned very much. Like physical food, spiritual food needs chewing! For those of us who have been Christians for a long time, we may have a tendency to speed-read through the passages weve read many times before. But in doing so, we miss what God is meaning to show us. One sure sign of this is when we learn nothing new from that passage. Davids desire was right when he wrote in Psalm 119:15, I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways. Thats the way to treat Gods Word, to take time to mull it over. Lets not come to the Bible as if we were going to an express buffet. Only by meditating on Gods Word will we get the most value for our spiritual well-being. Reading the Bible without reflecting is like eating without chewing.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:28:49 +0000
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