PSALM 63:1-3
A hotel once introduced an express buffet where customers eat all they can within a given time and pay just half the price. After that experience, one of their customers had this to say: “I lost my decorum, stuffing my mouth with yet more food. I lost my civility, and I also lost my appetite for the rest of the day, so severe was my heartburn.”
Sometimes in our devotional reading we treat God’s Word like an express buffet. We rush through it and yet we wonder why we have not gained much from it. Like physical food, spiritual food needs to be chewed and digested.
David said in Psalm 119:15, “I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.” That is the way to treat God’s Word – to take time to cogitate it.
Let us not come to the Bible as if we are going to an express buffet. Only by meditating on God’s Word will we get the most value for our spiritual well-being.
Reading the Bible without reflecting is like eating without chewing. Help us Lord Jesus to chew the scriptures. Amen.
