The Blessing of God’s Word

This week, I told my husband I had a huge pile of things swirling around in my head. Not things to do, but things I’ve been thinking about…God’s glory & how it affects my daily life, my need for holiness, Romans 12 and how God wants each of us to use the gifts He’s given us, and how the command to “let our light shine” can lead to the world hating believers as it hated our Savior, etc.

Do you know what all these things have in common?
The intake of God’s Word.

Whether in my personal reading of God’s Word, listening to sermons with my church family, studying the Bible with other ladies, memorizing a passage with a friend, or just in casual conversations with other believers, God’s Word has been doing the work it always does: sharply and accurately piercing my heart, convicting me of my sin and reminding me of Christ’s righteousness. (See Hebrews 4:12)

Avoiding God’s Word

But do you know what? This month, I’ve also fought against being in God’s Word. There are a lot of things I’d like to do that don’t look like sitting at the feet of Jesus as Mary did. Instead, I can often whirl around like Martha, busy with a million tasks that have an immediate impact (or I can just choose to stay in bed and scroll on my phone). While I know and experience the benefits of God’s Word, I sometimes avoid it.

Do you know the cure for avoiding God’s Word? It’s getting back into it, bringing my hardened heart to God, and asking him to give me a renewed love for His Word—just like the Psalmist expressed when he declared it was sweeter than honey and better than gold. (See Psalm 19:10.)

Do you know the cure for avoiding God’s Word?
Getting back into it.

My friend, I wonder what your relationship with God’s Word is like right now. What does your intake of Scripture look like? Are you regularly feasting on it? Meditating on and memorizing it?

If you find that your heart has been avoiding it—finding more glory in completing tasks, sleeping in, scrolling social media, or shopping for the best deals—then take this avoidance to the Father who already knows about it, the Son who died to set you free from it, and the Spirit who is at work to bring repentance and change in your life, so that you will no longer avoid God’s Word, but run to it.

Imagine With Me

Just imagine with me if you closed out the last month of 2022 in this way—not just saying you believe the Bible, but showing it by the way you read, obey, desire, talk about it, and live it out.

How would your life change if you lived like this?
How might the lives of those around you change?

May God help us to say with the Psalmist, “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103).