SPIRITUAL BOLEMICS

It is my fear that all too many of us who prepare Bible studies or sermons have a propensity to jump the gun when it comes to our own transformation.  What do I mean by this?

How often have you studied a passage and prepared a talk and found it hugely stimulating.  Stimulating because it really will resonate with those who will listen.  In fact it is so stimulating, that you binge on it for several hours.  It is like you have just eaten a delicious meal.  You have gorged yourself with God's finest cuisine.

The problem all too often is that we can't wait to throw it up.  We get so excited to share it that we forget to let it digest into our own heart.  We fool ourselves into thinking that just because we have studied, that somehow it has taken root into our lives.

The bigger problem is that we are misleading those who are listening.  They see this lean and mean Bible teacher on the outside, but who is really starving on the inside.  So we go on living this secret lifestyle where no personal transformation has taken place.

God told Joshua not to let the book of the law depart from his mouth but to also meditate on it day and night.  Meditate means to ruminate.  This means to chew on it over and over and then make sure your swallow.