A thought from Mark Batterson: “If the point of reading is to get through the bible, the purpose of meditating is to get the bible through us.” – Primal. What an awesome reality and revealing opportunity. You sit and read the Word, but do you allow all that is contained within the words to permeate your heart and mind. It is an impossible question to answer really, but if you just read through without a second thought of the text, you are not catching any of the transforming power of the Word of God. That isn’t to say there is no power in the Word. It is to say that the transformation lies somewhere between reading and action.
Take the book Numbers for instance. I have recently been reading Numbers where God tells Moses to take a census of the people of Isreal, the men of every tribe in fact. And upon meditating on this scripture, I am asking, “Why does God need to know the number of men over the age of one month in every tribe of Isreal. He knows the number of hairs on our head (an easier count for some than others). It is surely an intentional task because of something that He wants to show the people.” Meditating further will llikely reveal more depth than this, but it could simply be for the application that when God tells you to do something, you should realize that He wants to show you something that He already knows. He is not trying to learn something about you from you. He is trying to get you to learn something about Him from what He leads you in. I know you may think you know all there is to know about your self, but I am confident that God knows you better. He saw the end when He made you in the beginning. Just move in Him and look for what it is that He is wanting to reveal to you.
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