I have been thinking recently, as I have been reading blogs by two members of my church, Lisa (my wife) and Cara (a friend). I been smitten by the plainness and forwardness that they have about their faith. At the same time, I have been saddened by my devotions: they have been short and I don’t meditate on them enough.
I don’t know if this is the place to open those thoughts, but further consideration would help. So, for now, I will open them up a little here, knowing that if we forget these things, we are in danger of being hearers only and not doers of the word of God. Likewise, tThe word of God is excellent, sweet as honey, pure, tried, perfect, true, living, and (with the aid of God’s Spirit) quickening. If it is that excellent, why wouldn’t we savor it? Moreover, it says in the Bible to think on things that are pure and true and praiseworthy and excellent, etc (Phil 4.8). That sounds like promotion of the Scriptures. David spent the longest psalm (which is even the longest chapter in the whole Bible) on the subject of God’s word and his love of it.
If we don’t think on these things—continually—we are in danger of forgetting them. Considering the Bible’s value, being better than life, and of greater importance than food, can we afford not to consider it carefully and above all things?
I have strangely been able to get through college with very little reading of my textbooks. I am not boasting about it. I think it is sad. But the Bible is not a college book. It is not full of men’s ideas about stuff. It is not contemporary and slanted by modern scientific notions. It is not the work of men who love the praise of men, or who have a personal agenda, but men who feared and loved God, and who spake as the Spirit led them.
Let us then consider carefully the words of life that are ours (Dt. 29.29).
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