Lent: Day 36

Some days I begin my devotional time with reading Scripture and something just jumps off the page at me, and I say "Wow, thanks for speaking to me like that today." Some days, and this is today, I read through the Scripture and it seems like I know everything that is there. Like there is not that much new to be learned. Like I am reading to just get the reading done.

I need You to speak to me. I've taken up again with an old prayer I used to say every day, "speak to me, speak through me." I know that I've been frustrated with the distance in our relationship recently, and it's pretty obvious that I had given up on times of simple listening. Sometimes, You speak so clearly in the written word. Sometimes, not so much.

But however You do it, I need to feel like we are communicating. You might think that blogging here is my way of talking to You, but it is also my way of listening. Asking questions that I want to hear Your answer to. Writing and contemplating what I think You are saying to me, through Scripture and through thought.

Okay, so here's a thought for today. If I know much of the Bible, how well am I doing it? Perhaps I should read the Scriptures with an even larger eye toward application. I have to remember that Exodus's definition of knowledge is being prioritized and ordering according to what you know about God. So, how am I ordering my life around what I know?

Or better yet, what knowledge am I avoiding so that I don't have to be ordered by it?

Great questions. Speak to me. Speak through me.