Dry Times

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement
Dry Times

Do you sometimes open your Bible only to find your mind drifting off with every sentence? You wrestle it back to the verses at hand only to dose off or wander onto thoughts of some other topic.  Do you sometimes finish the entire section you planned to read without finding any inspiration in it? Those very same scriptures may bare the testimony of underlining or marginal notations that shows those words struck home with your spirit in previous readings, but they don’t now. Why can’t every session in your Bible reading be an eye opener?

God never finds us dull and uninteresting. So why do we sometimes struggle with His love letter to us, the Bible. We sometimes wrestle to tune into His thoughts conveyed in the Bible. We don’t receive greater revelation based on the level of our effort. On the contrary, the revelation we receive is a gift God freely gives. A prayer before we begin our Bible reading reaffirms to ourselves our dependence on Him for any nugget of inspiration we hope to gain. We can come prepared with a means of recording any insight we gain, big or small. And we can Thank Him ahead of time for meeting with us as we read His word. What do we do with a lovely gift in the natural? We set it out where we can enjoy it. We tell others about the gift. We often write a thank you note or at least a text to whoever gave us the gift. What do we do with the gift of revelation that sometimes accompanies our Bible reading? We can write it down, so we can remember it later when we need it. We can tell others about it. We can thank God over and over for His gift of insight to us. God longs to meet with us even more than we long to meet with Him. He rewards our time in the Bible even when we don’t recognize the benefits right away.