One of the joys of being a grandpa is reading stories to my grandchildren. One of their pet phrases when we finish a story is, "read it again." It seems some days they could listen to the same story over and over again. When I was thinking about what I should write this weeks article about this phrase kept popping into my head, "read it again." Then I remembered the line in the song, "I Love To Tell the Story," "I love to tell the story, for those who know it best seems hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest; ". When it comes to God's word we should want to read it again! We should be hungering and thirsting after the pure word of God according~to Matthew 4:4. When Jesus answered the devil's desire for Jesus to change stones into bread. "But he answered and said; It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God " Also in the sermon on the mount, Jesus said in Matthew 5:6, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Since there is a blessing to be had if we hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God and we learn of this righteousness from His word, it makes sense that we should be saying, "read it again."
Peter wrote that we should desire the word of God that we can grow spiritually, "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milt of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" One of the best ways to undersmd God's word is to read and read it again and again. The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy about the Christian's need for the word in 2 Timothy 2:15, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashanted; rightly dividing the word of truth." We grow to a mature Christian by studying God's word and we never get to a point where we do not need to read God's word again. May we ever be like little children in the fact that when we finish reading through the Bible, we say to ourselves, "READ IT AGAIN!"