Read, Worship, Repeat

I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

It’s a daily struggle to love God in the midst of mundane, repetitive tasks. The dishes need washing, the laundry needs folding, the trash cans need emptying, hungry bellies need filling—and I find myself inserting the discipline of studying my Bible into this list. At times, meeting with God becomes a “have to” instead of a “get to,” a task to check off instead of a delight to partake in.

Our souls need to be reminded of the same promises of God, day after day. We forget what we read, sometimes within seconds of closing our Bibles. Our minds need the kind of renewal that can come only through drinking the refreshing water of the Word (see John 4:14). We need the light of Christ to shine in the darkness of our circumstances (see 2 Corinthians 4:6). We need the reminder that the God who spoke billions of stars into existence is the same God who speaks to us in Scripture (see Psalm 147:4; Isaiah 40:26). The consistent act of reading the Bible engraves truth into the fibers of our being, verse by verse.

True to his Word, the Son of God does not fail us or forsake us (see Deuteronomy 31:6; Psalm 9:10). God has caused his Son, Jesus, to shine on our darkened hearts with the light of the gospel, just as the sun illuminates the darkness of this world each morning.

Think about this stunning reality: you and I did absolutely nothing to cause the sun to rise today, and yet we can fellowship with the one who did. G. K. Chesterton pondered God’s faithfulness in the mundane: “For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”^a

God knows our lives are filled with repetitive tasks. He does not despise the mundane, and neither should we. In fact, God knows that our ordinary tasks are often the very means he uses to refine us and shape us to be more like him.

A deep love for God comes not through reading Scripture one time but through a lifetime of consistently drinking in his Word. The sun and the moon remind us of God’s faithfulness to “do it again,” every single day.

As you wake up each morning and remember that you did absolutely nothing to cause the sun to rise, God grants you the endurance to open your Bible and read the Word once more. And he often surprises us with delight as we meet him on those pages.

Word before World Endless delight awaits us as we read God’s Word again and again.

Grow in Grace Do it again today. Open the Word and soak in the Son’s promises as he transforms what might otherwise seem mundane into worship.