Taking Time

In this busy world it seems increasingly difficult to find time for Bible study. But I have found that you don’t find time – time isn’t something you just happen to find. It’s there. Just so many hours, minutes and seconds of it in each day. So you can’t make time either. But you can take time. You can take it and do whatever you want with it.

You can make up your mind that the reading of God’s Word should have a preeminent place in your life and therefore determine to spend the very first part of each day with God.

When you’ve made yourself jump out of bed an hour or so earlier than usual, you’ll have found that you really weren’t sacrificing sleep in a cosy bed – you were discovering great treasures and becoming exceedingly rich.

Perhaps you’ve tried keeping your Bible on the night stand, and just sitting up in bed to read when the alarm sounded. But that didn’t work, did it? Soon you were fast asleep again. You have to get up out of bed and go to a table to read and study His Word.

Rarely will a little less sleep do you any harm. Indeed, the spiritual nourishment gained thereby will make you wise, rejoice your heart, enlighten your eyes, and convert your soul. (Psalm 19:7-8)

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