In my experience I do the things that I really want to do and the more I love something the more I want of it. That can be really bad for you – chocolate for example! But it is not true in every case. Falling in love with someone produces a physical yearning for that person within you, like an ache.
It seems to me that the greater our desire for God and his word the greater will be our intensity in seeking to spend time with him and reading his word. Part of what I hope we will all experience through the 40 Days in the Word campaign next year is for us to fall more in love with God's Word. That we might yearn for it and long to spend time with it in God's presence, that we might love the Word of God like we have never done before.
David writes of his yearning for God in today's psalm 142 when he says in verse 1 "I cry out to the LORD with all my voice" – right now David is in trouble, hiding from his enemies in a cave, so he has a vested interest in God coming to rescue him! But don't we always have a vested interest in crying out to God, in seeking his help, to protect and defend us, and most importantly to rescue and redeem us!
Father grant to me a longing within me for you and your Word, that with the psalmist I might cry out "Oh how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long" Psalm 119:97
Martin Saxby
Read the Bible in a Year: Psalm 142:1-7; Esther 6:1-8:17; Revelation 4:1-5:5
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