By: Jiloml
“Oh how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long."(NIV) Psalm 119:97
Bible reading: Psalm 119:97-104
Have we ever taken time out of our busy schedule to ask the most basic question a Christian needs to ask? Am I doing the masters will? Am I being productive enough in the Lord’s house? Am I a blessing and encouragement to those around me?
The answer is simple. We don’t even make enough time for God. All the things that we do are more important than our relationship with the Father. Most of the times we say to ourselves, “but God understands what is happening”; “He knows that I have a lot of things to do”; “He gave me that job, husband, that relationship etc. so He knows I have to take care of that”.
It is true that the Lord gave us everything that we have and it is for that purpose that He deserves every minute that we have. He demands that you do everything that you find your hand doing all to glorify his name. We ought to set out time to read his word out of our busy schedule. As a matter of fact, we do not only have to read and study but also meditate on the word daily. That is the only way to be productive in Christ.
We can only be blessings to others as God requires when we ourselves lend our lives to God to bless us through his word. All the riches of God are given to us through Christ and Christ is the word of God (John 1:1-2).
In John 1:16, the Bible says that “From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another”. This is what we have in Christ Jesus and we can be effective only when we also become blessings to others. This we can achieve only through CONTINUOUS Meditation.
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