Wednesday 14 September 2016

Day by day

Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.  – Nehemiah 8.18

Once they had obeyed God and gathered the branches and built the booths for the festival they observed the festival according to the things laid out in the word of God.

Also, day by day during the feast, Ezra read from the word of God to the people. In this case it is only that they heard the word of God every day during the festival, but I think there is a lesson for us in the importance of spending time day by day in the word of God. It is not something that can be served by a hit and miss attitude.

Our spiritual disciplines need a consistency. They need to become habits and then they need to become our life. Our walk with God and our time with Him should not be based on ‘if I have time’ but it ought to me our priority. We ought to commit time day by day for hearing from God and talking to Him.

We don’t normally skip meals. We don’t normally skip anything in our daily routines. A lot of us don’t skip our Facebook fix(es).


Why then do we think it is okay to just skip hearing from God for the day. 

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