Conclusion of Seven Steps to Beneficial Bible Reading-Step 6: Meditate

Step 6: Meditate

The pace and distractions of modern-day life are not conducive  to meditation. However, just as we have to digest our food in order to be nourished, we must meditate on what we read from the Bible in order to benefit. We do this by mentally reviewing what we read and by asking  ourselves such questions as these:  'What have I learned about Jehovah God?  How does this apply  to me?  How might I use it to help others?'

Such thinking allows the Bible's message to touch our heart and increases the joy we find in reading God's Word. Psalm 119:97 says:  "How I do love your law!  All day long it is my concern."  Through meditation, the psalmist made the Scriptures his concern all day long. Doing so helped him to develop a deep love for what he learned.

Step 7: Get help to understand

God does not expect us to grasp his Word fully on our own. Even the Bible acknowledges that it contains "some things hard to understand." (2 Peter 3:16)  The book of Acts describes an Ethiopian  official who was perplexed by a portion of  the Bible that he read. God sent one of His servants to help him, with the result that the Ethiopian man "kept going on his way rejoicing." -Acts 8:26-39. 

You too can profit more from Bible reading by getting help to understand what you read. Contact Jehovah's Witnesses in your community, or write to the address on page 4 of the Watchtower magazine for a free home Bible study.

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From the Watchtower magazine, 2010