Today I thought I'd share a post I wrote on Facebook over a year ago. It's a reminder I need daily, and I hope it challenges and encourages you to sit and soak in the Word for a while. Then, having been filled up, you can go and be squeezed out for the sake of the gospel. May the Lord work in your heart and mind as you encounter Him through His Word.
We’ve all been there. Scrolling down through our newsfeed at
breakneck speed, our eye having been trained to pick up only what we believe is
of the most significance or interest to us.
As our “friends” multiply and our feed ever expands, we somehow feel this
sprint through the flurry of posts is helping us save time. After all, if we were to actually read (not
to mention digest) every single post we’d forever be glued to the screen!
In the Facebook world, running
through the newsfeed is okay. Facebook is
a creation of man largely filled with postings that serve man’s own purposes. But
how often do we take our Facebook mentality and bring it with us to the Word of
God?
We have so trained our attention
span to be split-second that we breeze through passages in the Bible without
giving them a second thought—perhaps even without actually knowing what we just
read in the first place. And as we
sprint through the verses, we stop only when we pick up on what we believe to
be significant or interesting to us personally.
But the Bible is not a creation of man, to be used by man for his own
purposes. The Bible is the Word of the
Most High God, the message God sends to us as humankind, and its message is as
current as the Facebook post from “just now.”
So my challenge to us is
this: Stop bringing a Facebook mentality
to the Word of God.
Slow down.
Resist the default of sprinting
through chapters without asking God what He wants to teach us—about Himself,
about ourselves, about the world around us.
Push ourselves to start digging deep, even in passages that don’t seem
relevant to us at the time.
Read the Bible—every part of
it—as if it is of the utmost significance.
Because it is.
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