A hotel in Singapore introduced an express buffeteat all you can in 30 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 Wordto 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.
Let us be faithful to the knowledge we have, ever growing in grace and wisdom, day by day.
It is good to start the day with prayer and reading a chapter from the Holy Bible.
It is good to end the day with prayer and considering what we did or did not do during the day that was to please our LORD.
The Most High God gives/gave us all a gift. Are we using the gift the LORD has already equipped us to use for His service?