Gtpministries.org – In our daily life, maybe we often read textbooks to add insight or knowledge. Even in spirituality, we also need to increase our insight and knowledge about God by reading God’s Word.
Maybe there is a question in our minds, what is the importance of reading God’s Word? As people who believe in the Lord Jesus, the word of God is something that is important for our lives. This is as written in Matthew 4:4, But Jesus answered: “It is written: Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
In this passage from God’s word, it is clearly said that every people created by God apart from physical food, we also need spiritual food. So as followers of Christ we need to consume spiritual food, namely the word of God by reading and meditating on it in our hearts. Because, by reading God’s word, we are sure that we will get benefits or uses that are very important in our spiritual life.
The first thing we gain from reading God’s word is training ourselves to worship. This is as it is written in 1 Timothy 4:8, Physical exercise is of limited benefit, but godliness is profitable for everything, because it holds promise, both for this life and for the life to come.
God’s Word clearly says that when we train ourselves in worshiping God, apart from being beneficial in our current life, it will also be beneficial or beneficial for our future life.
In fact, if we read in verse 10: That is why we labor and strive, because we put our hope in the living God, the Savior of all mankind, especially those who believe. It is not an easy thing for us to train ourselves in worship but it requires struggle and we must do it with all our heart and a longing heart because without a longing and thirsty heart it will be difficult for us to do it.
In fact, nowadays, with the sophistication of technology, humans tend to like worldly things more than spiritual things. So in today’s modern era, people spend more time with worldly things without thinking about how the heart of God, the creator and who is always good for us, feels.
Therefore, as children of God, we should be able to use sophisticated technology created by experts. They have created a very sophisticated tool to facilitate or make it easier for us to access spiritual things such as cellphones. Now we can make Bible applications on our cellphones. So we only need awareness or instill a love within ourselves to read the Bible, because wherever we are now, whether in the office or on a trip, we can access or open the Bible and read it.
Second, the benefit or utility of reading God’s word is to train ourselves to divide our time. We know that currently there are many people who cannot manage their time and only do work activities and do not think about their spiritual food. As followers of Christ, we must also divide our time in reading God’s word because we know that when we read God’s word we gain strength and peace of mind. Because, God’s word is a lamp for our feet and a stick in navigating the life that God still gives us.
In fact, we know that God’s word can be said to be our weapon against every power and deception of Satan. Therefore, let us as God’s people give our time to reading God’s word and never get bored of reading God’s word because when we read and hear God’s word we gain victory and strength. Lord Jesus bless us.
