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Longing For God's Word
Psalm 119:20 (NIV) reads, “My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.”
In his book “The Wonders of the Word of God,” Evangelist Robert L. Sumner told of a man in Kansas City who was severely injured in an explosion. His face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands. He was a brand-new Christian, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no longer read the Bible. Then he heard about a lady in England who read Braille with her lips. Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in Braille.
But when the books arrived, he discovered to his great disappointment that the nerve endings in his lips had been too damaged by the explosion. One day, as he brought one of the Braille pages to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised characters—and he could feel them! Like a flash he thought, “I can read the Bible using my tongue!” At the time Robert Sumner wrote his book in 1969, the man had “read” through the entire Bible four times!
I am convicted by that story. My eyesight is not nearly what it used to be, but I do still have two eyes that can read and take in the Word of God into my brain and heart and soul. Yet I do not read it as I should. I do not take delight in God’s Word as I should. It is not always honey to my mouth, or light for my path, nor can I always say that my heart trembles at the Word of God. The challenge for us is to read the Bible more, to meditate on it more, to take it into our lives more, to expose our hearts and spirits to it more—so that our longing for God’s Word is something that literally consumes us with desire—at all times!
--Rocky Henriques, www.timothyreport.com
