Consumed With Longing

“My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.” (Psalm 119:20)

David loved God’s Word. To him it was life itself. His desire was to know God and to follow His Word. The Lord called David a man after His own heart.

Paul had a similar longing for the Word of God. In writing to the Philippians he said that Christ was his life. May people live for pleasures, or sports, or their job or other things. Some people are consumed with sports. They watch hours of sports on television. They participate in may sports themselves. One might say they are consumed with sports. Paul was consumed with Christ. David was consumed with the Word of God. What are you consumed with?

How much time do you spend each day in God’s Word? Is God’s Word alive to you? Are you saturated with God’s Word? Many people I know who call themselves Christians have never taken time to read the Bible through. On, they read the Bible. They spend time with their favourite passages, but they have never read the Bible completely through from Genesis to Revelation. The Old Testament shows how God prepared a people for the coming of His Son. The Gospels show how the world received His Son. The Book of Acts and the Epistles show how the church proclaimed His Son. The book of Revelation shows the finally victory and the crowning of His Son.

The Word of God is the story of God’s Son. If we say we love Him then we will want to know Him. If we want to know Him then we will want to spend time in His Word. We will say as the Psalmist said, “I am consumed with longing for your laws at all times.”