8 Reasons To Read Your Bible

Anyone else experienced the following?  

• You sit down to read Scripture – and out of nowhere, a highly unusual urge (e.g. to tidy your bedroom floor!) comes over you. By the time you’re finished – your room looks great! But time’s got away so you leave the Bible for another day.  

• You go to open the word and out of the corner of your eye your phone lights up with a notification – just a quick look…45 minutes and some random reels later – the moment’s passed.  

• You’re feeling spiritually hungry. In need of daily bread - but if you just crack out that beefcake of an essay then that’d be a major thing off your plate…  

• You sit down to read a passage – but you’re so wired-tired that you’ve read v14 about 6 times in a row now and it’s still not gone in!  

Friend. You are not alone. Distraction, exhaustion, apathy, confusion even – the ol’ invisible gremlins that can make reading the Bible feel like mission impossible.  

But boy, is it worth getting out a baseball bat – praying for the Holy Spirit’s power and presence – opening your Bible and sticking it to the gremlins.  

Here’s 8 reasons why from Psalm 19. The word of God is described as: 

1. “Perfect, refreshing the soul” (v7)  

2. “Trustworthy, making wise the simple” (v7) 

3. “Right, giving joy to the heart.” (v8)  

4. “Radiant, giving light to the eyes.” (v8)  

5. “Pure, enduring forever” (v9)  

6. “Firm, all of them are righteous” (v9)  

7. “Precious.. more precious than gold” (v10)  

8. “Sweet …by them your servant is warned” (v11)   

Christian – like air for our lungs and water for our bodies: we need the living, God-breathed, word.  

As we study the Scriptures – it searches us.  

It’s worth the battle, the persevering, the wins amidst the flops.  

And as we read – we meet the One who is the ‘Word-made-flesh’. Just look at those descriptions again and tell me they don’t also ring true of Jesus?  

Heavenly Father,  

In a fast-paced world where we can swipe away everything that doesn’t capture our attention immediately - would you save us from doing that with your word. Holy Spirit, would you give us the power and perseverance to read the Scriptures and as we do: refresh, guide, ignite, reveal, anchor, direct, fill and refine us. Show us Jesus on every page we pray.  

In Jesus Name, Amen.  

• Read the whole of Psalm 19 here

• Get into the word of God as a CU (there’s even one on the Psalms) here

• Questioning whether you can trust the Bible? Look here

• Brill vids to help you navigate the Bible here