“Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.” (Psalm 119:97)

Charles Spurgeon declared, “I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.” While time in God’s Word will always prove worthwhile, if we speed through our Bible reading for the day, we are only shortchanging ourselves of the blessings we could otherwise experience if we took the time to slow down and really reflect on what we’ve read in God’s Word. Just look at the blessed life that could be ours if we simply made spending regular time reflecting on Scripture a priority.

Psalm 1:3 describes:

He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

No wonder the blessed man from Psalm 1 meditated on God’s Word day and night! Each time he spends meditating in God’s Word he is refreshed by the Living Water. In time he bears an abundance of delicious fruit. When the heat of trials come, the heat does not cause his leaf to wither. His faith is not shaken. His  hope and trust is in God. This is a person completely abiding in and relying on God’s Word. As a result whatever they do prospers. However they prosper, it appears will always be evidence of an abiding life.

Your life, too, can exemplify these blessed characteristics as you increasingly delight and take time to meditate on God’s Word.

How much we delight in God’s Word will determine the quality of our time spent in the Word, as well as how often we choose to be in it. As we faithfully employ our mind to daily meditate on God’s words, we will be blessed and grow spiritually in ways we could have never imagined.

Heavenly Father, thank You for the priceless gift of Your Word. Help me not let the business of my day, distract me from spending meaningful time reading my Bible. I don’t want to miss out on anything, in it, that You have for me In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Questions: How would you describe your time in God’s Word today? Does your time resemble a refreshing soak or a quick rinse? What can you do today to make your time in God’s Word more satisfying?

About the author: Brooke Espinoza

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“Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long” (Psalm 119:97).

Charles Spurgeon declared, “I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.” While time in God’s Word will always prove worthwhile, if we speed through our Bible reading for the day, we are only shortchanging ourselves of the blessings we could otherwise experience if we took the time to slow down and really reflect on what we’ve read in God’s Word. Just look at the blessed life that could be ours if we simply made spending regular time reflecting on Scripture a priority.

Psalm 1:3 describes:

He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

No wonder the blessed man from Psalm 1 meditated on God’s Word day and night! Each time he spends meditating in God’s Word he is refreshed by the Living Water. In time he bears an abundance of delicious fruit. When the heat of trials comes, the heat does not cause his leaf to wither. His faith is not shaken. His hope and trust is in God. This is a person completely abiding in and relying on God’s Word. As a result whatever they do prospers. However they prosper, it appears will always be evidence of an abiding life.

Your life, too, can exemplify these blessed characteristics as you increasingly delight and take time to meditate on God’s Word.

How much we delight in God’s Word will determine the quality of our time spent in the Word, as well as how often we choose to be in it. As we faithfully employ our mind to daily meditate on God’s words, we will be blessed and grow spiritually in ways we could have never imagined.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the priceless gift of Your Word. Help me not let the business of my day distract me from spending meaningful time reading my Bible. I don’t want to miss out on anything, in it, that You have for me In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Questions: How would you describe your time in God’s Word today? Does your time resemble a refreshing soak or a quick rinse? What can you do today to make your time in God’s Word more satisfying?

Brooke Espinoza, a Calvary Chapel Bible College graduate, writes to encourage and empower Christian women to fully trust in God and His Word so when their faith is tested they will not be shaken. Find more encouragement at her blog.

About the Author Brooke Espinoza

I am not by nature a people person. I grew up in the country as an only child who loved walking alone in the fields surrounding our home, or reading under the over hanging branches of a cedar tree that grew on the one windowless side of our house. (My mother couldn’t see me there!) Even today my favorite times are like the ones experienced as I write these words—sitting at a small, scarred wooden table in my favorite café, looking out the paned window at sporadic traffic soundlessly passing by. The café owners are generous toward moles like me—their nearby kitchen conversations are muted and they keep my coffee cup filled.

So what am I doing in a life that is normally filled with people—with teaching, organizing, counseling? A life far removed from meandering through fields or sequestered under pine boughs?

A night over 50 years ago is burned into my memory. It was the night I felt God saying “…so send I you.” The years since that night have been saturated with challenge, joy, sorrow, adventure and fulfillment. At times I have complained, insisting that I am not only inadequate for His task but I just plain do not like the path He has chosen. But the one who called has gone with me, refreshed, encouraged and taught me. How tragic it would have been to insist only on walking in fields and sitting under trees.

Thank you for your patience with me, Father, and for choosing me to be your servant.

Questions: How has God called you in the past? What new paths is He calling you to?

About the Author Marilyn Ehle

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