Delighted By God’s Word
“How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” Psalm 119:103
The fact that we now enjoy the vegetables we hated as children indicate that, as we mature, we can cultivate a taste for healthy, life-giving food.
The Bible is food for your soul, and you can cultivate a taste for that too.
The Scripture nurtures our soul just as food nurtures our body. We don’t simply learn or study it; we assimilate it in ways that energise us into acts of love.
The unexpressed secret is that many people find the Bible boring, and it is a serious problem.
Interestingly, ancient Greek, the language of the New Testament, has no word for boredom. The word didn’t acquire its current meaning in English until the last few centuries. When we consider the ancient world, with no television, internet, movies, and virtually no books, we are inclined to think how boring it must have been. But the ancients weren’t bored.
We are the generation that gets bored because the capacity to focus our attention and delight our minds in prolonged thought has been diminished by dependency on external stimuli. We have too many tempting alternatives.
That’s why becoming a faithful Bible reader begins as a discipline, continues as a duty, and finally becomes a delight.
‘How sweet are Your words… sweeter than honey to my mouth!’
This can be your experience, too, when it comes to reading God’s Word. You just need to get serious about it.