How I love Your teaching!
It is my meditation all day long.
Your command makes me wiser than my enemies,
for it is always with me.
I have more insight than all my teachers
because Your decrees are my meditation.
I understand more than the elders
because I obey Your precepts.
I have kept my feet from every evil path
to follow Your word.
I have not turned from Your judgments,
for You Yourself have instructed me.
How sweet Your word is to my taste—
[sweeter] than honey to my mouth.
I gain understanding from Your precepts;
therefore I hate every false way
Psalms 119:97-104 HCSB
When reading and studying I don’t want to just build up knowledge, especially not knowledge that “puffs up”. (1 Corinthians 8:1) In addition to praying prior to each time I read and study I have come up with some indicators.
1) Does what I read and study cause me to pray about what I’m learning or being convicted of?
2) Do I ponder and meditate on what I’m reading?
3) Is what I’m learning producing change?
4) Does what I’m learning cause me to worship God?
5) Am I growing more humble with an attitude of fear and trembling instead of being puffed up?
Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Do you have anything to add? Since there aren’t many reading this blog I know I may be risking silence as I shout alone in my little corner of cyberspace.
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