Revision!
For anyone who is a student, or has been talking to any students, the vast majority of them will have been using this word to sum up their social lives, or lack of recently, “Revision”. For many of us it has been exam time, be it at AS/2 Level, or be it exams at uni, but ultimately the majority of our time over the last few weeks since the turn of the year has been spent revising.
And its got me thinking, we spend so much time learning about our subjects for our exams, but how much time do we devote to the study of word of God? How much over the last few weeks has our knowledge increased about our subjects, but has our knowledge of God increased?
As I sit here typing this, i acknowledge that over the last few weeks my knowledge of God has not increased due to time being spent “revising” and the stress and annoyance of exams. So often we commit ourselves to the study of our subjects, and rightly so, but do we commit to knowing God better. How much of His word do we read compared to the amount of journals, articles, lecture notes or the reading lists given to us by our lecturers?
Psalm 1:2 states “but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
When we are revising for exams, days on end do we study all day, sometimes close to the exam we stay up later or in some cases all night to try and gain the knowledge that we need. Here the Psalmist states that the man who is blessed, the man who is to be thought highly off, is the one who delights in the word of God, and thinks about, and spends time in it day and night.
Revision is going over things we in theory already know, and trying to recall them, and adding detail to what knowledge we already have. How much of Gods word do we know, and its application to our lives, are we revising Gods word, or are we really just setting out to start to read it.
I pray that I myself will strive to be in Gods word more, that I will take aside time to read it more often, more thoroughly, and also try to make it a huge part of my life like it should be. If you have any great ways in doing Bible study, leave a comment and share with others who may read, and maybe you will give insight into a fresh way to do this critical discipline, and others may to get into Gods word better.
Hello Mr Jackson, found your blog looking for a blurb about Easter Confernce to put on the new Youth Challenge site. Which will have a blog, which they are wanting to have articles from SYC on so your blogging skills may be called up. You have been warned.
You make a good point though, its embarrasing some of the things we do more than studying Gods word. We probably spend more time eating.