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Desiring God - God Gives Us His Grace in His Word - David Mathis
Bible reading is not simply a discipline or a chore to be done. It is the way God wants to get grace to you, a feast to fill your soul.
Bible study is not the same thing as Bible reading. If Bible reading is like raking for leaves, Bible study is like digging for diamonds. The Christian life calls for both. When we study the Bible, we are on a quest for meaning — and not just any meaning, but God’s meaning through the Bible’s human authors. Discovering God’s meaning may require hard work (digging for diamonds always does), but the journey will leave us with deeper knowledge, more Christlikeness, and a stronger sense of God’s beauty in his book.
David Mathis is executive editor for desiringgod.org/ and pastor at Cities Church in Minneapolis. He is a husband, father of four, and author of Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines.
Length: 1min
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