The Bible’s longest chapter (Psalm 119) is all about inflaming love for God’s word. Kenneth Berding recently studied that chapter with a view to synthesizing what the Bible itself says about how to foster love for the Bible. Berding came up with ten practices.
Here are the first five:
- Regularly praise God for giving you his Word.
- Pray that God will teach you as you read.
- Consciously engage your affections.
- Think about the benefits of God’s Word in your life. Consider ways God has changed you through his Word.
- Connect your love for God himself—including his attributes—to loving his Word.
Berding shows each of these habits from the text of Psalm 119. He then gives 5 more ways you, too, can increase your love for the scripture.
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