The fact that we now enjoy the vegetables we hated as children indicates that, as we mature, we can cultivate a taste for healthy, life-giving food. And since the Bible is soul food, you can cultivate a taste for that too. Scripture nurtures followers of Jesus as food nurtures the body. We don\u2019t simply learn or study it; we assimilate it in ways that energise us into acts of love. <\/p>\n
Consumer research indicates the average Bible owner has nine<\/i> Bibles and is looking for more<\/i>. What\u2019s wrong with this picture? The unexpressed secret is that many people find the Bible boring. This is quite a recent problem\u2014and a serious one. Ancient Greek, the language of the New Testament, has no word for boredom. The word didn\u2019t acquire its current meaning in English until the last few centuries. When we consider the ancient world\u2014no television, internet, movies, and virtually no books\u2014we\u2019re inclined to think how boring it must have been. But the ancients weren\u2019t bored. <\/p>\n
We\u2019re<\/i> the generation that gets bored, because capacity to focus our attention and delight our minds in prolonged thought has been diminished by dependency on external stimuli. We have too many tempting alternatives. That\u2019s why becoming a faithful Bible reader begins as a discipline<\/i>, continues as a duty<\/i>, and finally becomes a delight. \u2018How sweet are Your words\u2026 sweeter than honey to my mouth!\u2019<\/i> And that can be your experience, too, when it comes to reading God\u2019s Word. You just need to get serious about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The fact that we now enjoy the vegetables we hated as children indicates that, as we mature, we can cultivate a taste for healthy, life-giving food. And since the Bible is soul food, you can cultivate a taste for that too. Scripture nurtures followers of Jesus as food nurtures the body. We don\u2019t simply learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}