Written by Gretchen Saffles, a contemporary writer. This is an excerpt from her book “Word Before World.”
This may surprise you, but there is a subtle danger in making it a goal to read the Bible every day. In our humanity, we can easily make consistent Bible study a way to earn God’s love. Instead of reading the Bible out of love and delight, we see this time as something to check off a spiritual to-do list…The goal of reading God’s Word is not to puff up our souls or to place a big checkmark at the end of theyear. It’s not to add to our “Christian resume,” or earn God’s favor. The aim is to know Christ and exalt him in our lives a we come before him hungry for truth and humbled by his grace. The goal is to glorify him through our fervent reading, joy-filled worship, and faithful obedience. And this is something that cannot be measured…So make it your aim to read the Word each day in order to know God and delight in him…Surrender your checklists to God, and seek to know him each time you open the Word.
The Lord is my portion; I promise to keep your words. [Psalm 119:57]
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