Read Your Bible More and More – Desiring God
Read Your Bible More and More - Desiring God.
I love the first two reasons Piper gives as to why reading the Bible everyday (whether one feels like it or not) is not legalism.
- You are confessing your lack of desire as sin, and pleading as a helpless child for the desire you long to have. Legalists don’t cry like that. They strut.
- You are reading out of desperation for the effects of this heavenly medicine. Bible-reading is not a cure for a bad conscience; it’s chemo for your cancer. Legalists feel better because the box is checked. Saints feel better when their blindness lifts, and they see Jesus in the word. Let’s get real. We are desperately sick with worldliness, and only the Holy Spirit, by the word of God, can cure this terminal disease.
I actually founds this as I searched DG for "daily Bible reading" to see what Piper or some other might have to say to "stir me up" and rekindle my fire for reading the Word before breakfast each day. Why do I go to DG? Because a true friend tells you what you need to hear instead of what you want to hear, and I can often count on the folks at DG for that, and Piper is simply the most motivating advocate of daily reading of the Word in personal and/or corporate devotions, but especially the former.
Let us continue the race of faith, slowly and steadily, always quick to listen and slow to speak, humbly and boldly.