It is one thing to read God’s Word and another to study it. I’ve been going through the Old Testament lately and I just finished the book of Judges, yet, in the last few chapters particularly, it felt like I wasn’t studying as I should have. I am going to go back and go over those last few chapters again, because when I read God’s Word, I want to actually take it in and study it. I’ve heard people say about those who don’t listen, “what they hear goes in one ear and out the other.” Sometimes when we read God’s Word we don’t always pay as close attention as we should. There may be times when it seems like what you read goes in one eye and out the other. This is why we need to make sure that we pray before and while we read, we need to ask God to help us understand and take in what He has recorded. Then after we have studied we need to make sure to pray that God will keep what we have just studied fresh on our hearts and minds. The Psalmist wrote, “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2. We are to pray constantly and we are also to meditate on God’s Word. We have to be thinking about it and studying it. God has so much that He wants to show us in His Word that will bring Him glory. He wants us to study His Word so that we can share it with others. We can’t tell about what we do not know. As His children it should be our desire to study it so that we can learn more about the Living God, who adopted us out of slavery to sin. God Bless!
