Five Ways to "Feel" Scripture

By Jared C. Wilson

Many of us read the Bible, and many of us do not. Many of us go into Bible reading looking for anything but transformation, whichh is unfortunate, given that transformation is the primary reason the written Word of God exists.

Devotional Scripture reading requires discipline and consistency, but its aim is the treasuring of God’s word in our hearts and the delighting of ourselves in God’s statutes.

We have at our fingertips the very revelation of God to us, and yet we treat Scripture like a blunt instrument, like a reference book, like a prop for our propaganda, anything but the wellspring of God’s truth to be drunk deeply from. Devotional Scripture reading means meditating on Scripture, chewing on it, savoring it, learning not just how to read Scripture, but how to feel it.