Have you tried asking a kid to do a job for you like mowing the lawn, washing the dishes ?? It may all begin as a fun adventure, then it grows into an exciting responsibility, and finally becomes a boring job to be avoided and postponed.
How many people could parallel this with time spent reading the Bible. When you first started, His Word is fresh and you read it with enthusiasm. As you grow in faith, time in the Word becomes an exciting responsibility as you learn about God and His children. But, later, it seems to be a tedious job for which there is no time. Reading and studying the Word often takes low priority in the business of our lives.
Yet it is in God's Word that
we learn how to live.
we receive courage, strength, power, freedom, comfort, and grace to sustain us in times of trouble.
we learn who God is and, by this knowledge, learn to trust in Him.
(0582 14V2008)Psalm 1:1-2
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.