The voice in me

OK I will have to admit this has not been the easiest thing for me. I don’t know how many times I tried to discipline myself to different Bible study schedules, which just faded away uncompleted. Imagine the reading for the day being a chapter in the book of Numbers and its a list of names following the genealogy of someone. There is nothing that drains my spirit away than forcing myself to read the Bible, getting nothing out of it but still got to do so.

How do you all study your Bible?like seriously this is an honest question. I believe am not the only one who can sometimes feel so dry while reading my bible. Or don’t even feel like reading it to begin with. Worse still forcing myself to read and not even recalling a single thing right after . I hope it isn’t just me.

People in the Old testerment often talked about keeping the law, obeying the law, meditating the law (law being the word of God ). David even said that he kept God’s word in his heart that he may not sin against God. And one fascinating scripture even say Psalm 119:9
[9]How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
    By living according to your word.

Something about the word of God which is important for us to survive and even be preserved . In the new testerment I can think of Paul encouraging the saints to put on the whole armor of God , guess what? The word of God is there once again as the sword of the spirit. Something important about the word that’s for sure. We often been taught that we can’t please God without faith and also that faith comes from hearing the word of God. So many things relating to our Christian walk that points us back to the word of God.

But we can only know the word when we make time to read it. And we are motivated to read it when we understand it. We can only understand the word when been lead by the Spirit of God. Why do I say that , well if we read from our carnal minds, we may give it man made interpretations which is why I believe the Christian world is so divided, with so many ideologies, doctrines and theology, whatever that means.

Despite all that we still need to know and understand God’s word,which is why we are encouraged to study it. The question however is how can one do that. How can one grow in the word. How can one study the word of God effectively.

Well let’s find out.

Cheers !