I Don't Read My Bible Enough

by Ron Smith

Like a giant Sequoia tree, growth for the Bible meditator requires day-by-day, week-by-week feeding on God's Word.

In essence, then, meditation is a two-way relationship; it is fellowship with God.

Along the way they would face the barbaric Canaanites. These cruel people sacrificed their first- born children and placed their sacrificed bones in an earthen jar that was then built into the walls of their homes. Their

"This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it." (Joshua 1:8).

Before anything else, God called Joshua to have an ongoing devotional life with meditation as a priority.

There are about twenty-five books in the Bible that can be read in less than thirty minutes. These books include: Ruth, Ezra, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Malachi, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Jude.

"Nothing is more perilous than to be weary of the Word of God. Thinking he knows enough, a person begins little by little to despise the Word until he has lost Christ and the gospel altogether." Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians 2:14-16

Amen!