The Impact of Scripture

Devotional

Scripture feeds our souls.
Our bodies have an appetite that reminds us to keep them alive by feeding them. What is your cue to feed your spirit? For our relationship with God to grow stronger, we must feed it. God’s Word is that food. Just like a baby cries out for milk, a spirit made alive through faith in Christ has an appetite, too. But it’s so easy to distract ourselves from being in tune with this hunger and thirst. Entertainment, busyness, even good things like family and friends can get in the way of maintaining consistent Bible study.

You have to choose to make feeding your spiritual growth the top priority in your day. Instead of just checking it off and going on through your day, go slowly and really internalize it. Build your appetite for the Bible by mixing up your habits. If you typically read straight through from beginning to end, skip around. If you typically just do one reading plan at a time, like this one, try taking a particular book of the Bible and going through it multiple times. If you have a choice of versions in your language or speak another language, try reading in a different translation than you’re used to. 

Select a meaningful passage and read it over and over daily until you have it memorized. Or, rather than picking a passage at random, commit to a new Bible plan before you finish the previous one. What will you do to make feeding your soul as much of a priority as feeding your body?

 Talk to God: God, help me be faithful to reading Your Word. Stir a hunger and thirst in me for drawing closer to You through Your Word. I want my spiritual appetite to grow and my relationship with You to grow as a result. Help me to taste Your goodness through what I read each day. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Matthew 4:4  
4Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

1Peter2:2
2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

Hebrews 5:11-14  
 11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.