Mar 14

1 John 2:5
Memorise 1 Peter 2:2
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.”

What are your emotions when you read God’s Word or when it is taught over the pulpit every Sunday? Are you bored and falling asleep? Do you struggle to do your QT or is it a time you look forward to find rest in the Lord? Or do you instead find QT a chore that you do only because you are forced to? Our love for God’s Word has a lot to do with our love for God and our understanding of Him. If we do not love God’s Word, it is very possible that we do not love God, or know him well enough. This is a stark truth that we cannot deny. If we do not find an eagerness for God’s Word, if we find God’s Word to be bland and tasteless, then our love for God may well be just as weak and feeble. Perhaps there was a time when you loved God’s Word but it is now weak because you have allowed your spiritual life to slacken. If that is the case, then you should do all you can to revive your spiritual life because there is nothing more important. You should examine your heart for sin as sin may be a hindrance to your relationship with God as well. If there is sin in your life and you refuse to repent, you have then given yourself over to mammon and not God and God is no longer in your life because you cannot love both (Matthew 6:24). Then you must repent and forsake the thing that is a sin in your life and return to God again. Or, you have no love for God because you have never loved God before. You have never come to believe and trust in God and have never been saved. If so, you must understand that when you pass from this life, you will be confronted with an eternity of damnation and suffering and there will be no return. This is your chance to escape that condemnation by receiving Christ’s offer for salvation.

The lack of love for God’s Word is a sign of a lack of love for God Himself. Have you forgotten what Christ has done for you? Have you forgotten how you once loved God? Why have you forsaken such great a gift? Is your sin more precious than the love of God that you rather choose your sin over God? Return to God today and love Him once again and may God’s Word shine in your heart.

Thought: Have I been loving God’s Word in my daily life?
Prayer: Father, search my heart and reveal all hindrances to my lack of love for You and Your Word.