How to Start Loving, Reading, and Studying God's Word
Welcome back to Going Deeper. I hope you’re having a great day today! This is probably one of my favorite episodes I’ve scripted so far, and I think it’s going to be really, really helpful for many of you. I have five steps you can take to start loving, reading, and studying God’s Word more consistently.
Some of you may know that this podcast actually launched on my birthday. And because I’m a bit of a nerd, I wanted to share the books I ended up buying with my birthday money. I didn’t get a lot of money for my birthday, and I’m not really someone who spends much on clothes—plus, I’m pregnant, so I’m not going to splurge on maternity clothes. But I do love books and buying books.
The first thing I bought with my birthday money wasn’t even a book—it was a printer. Isn’t that funny? I won’t go into the details, but I wanted a printer at home so I wouldn’t have to keep bothering my husband at work to print things for me.
Anyway, I bought three books, very random ones. Please don’t judge me—I’m a nerd! The first book is one a friend of mine recommended to me about a year ago. She went to Liberty University and Bible college. The book is called Grasping God’s Word. When she recommended it, I had no idea it was actually a textbook. But she spoke so highly of it that I saved it on Amazon. Recently, when my current Bible study group finished a study, I was thinking about what book of the Bible to study next and how to improve my study of Scripture. So, I thought this would be a great resource. When I went to buy it, I realized it really is a full-blown textbook—but I’m going for it. Your girl is going to do it because we can’t afford seminary or Bible college right now. So this is the next best thing. I’ll link it in the show notes.
Then I also bought the New Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Yay! Basically, a concordance lists every word you can find in the Bible. So, for example, you can look up the word “baby” and it’ll show you every place in the Bible where that word appears. I thought this would be a great study tool so I don’t have to use my computer all the time.
The last book I got is called The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson. Do you know Andrew Peterson? He’s a singer-songwriter—you might know him from the song Dancing in the Minefields—so good. If you haven’t heard that song, you should listen to it! But he’s also a fiction writer and has written a memoir. The Wingfeather Saga is a young adult/children’s chapter book series. I love fantasy novels like Harry Potter, and I love that this one has a Christian twist. I’ve heard great things about it, and I thought it would be a cool way to start reading aloud to my kids. So those are the three books I got—very nerdy, but that’s what I got for my birthday!
Those are also the recommendations I promised I’d start sharing at the beginning of each podcast. I’ll link all of these in the show notes. By the way, I’ve been adding show notes online with details for every episode. You can find them on my website under the blog tab at justineshuri.com if that’s easier for you to access.
Okay, I have a feeling this episode might be 45 minutes or longer, so let’s dive right in. I want to start similarly to how I did last week’s episode about grace and power by sharing a part of my story.
Growing up, around age 12, we were living in Kentucky—which is where we currently live, though we’ve lived in several places. I was playing soccer and just living my life when a new family moved in. A new girl named Mia joined my soccer team. At first, we didn’t get along because we were both competitive, but very quickly, we became best friends. I was at her house all the time—spending the night, going to youth group with her mom after practice, basically hanging out constantly.
After a few months, I started to notice some really interesting things about Mia’s family. For example, they always prayed hand-in-hand before every meal. Sometimes, we’d get on our knees in a circle in their dining room to pray for something important going on. If I spent the night on a school night, her mom would pray over us before bed. And after breakfast the next morning, Mia and her siblings would often gather around their living room ottoman for a devotional led by their dad.
If we missed church on Sundays because of soccer games, her mom would play the sermon on the radio and then ask us questions about what we learned from it.
Another thing that really impacted me was how often I saw Mia’s family members reading their Bibles throughout the day. If I came home from school and they were doing homework in different rooms, I’d walk into the living room to find her dad lounging on the couch with his Bible open. But most memorably, Mia was up every morning before me, and I’d find her reading her Bible and prayer journal.
It was clear this wasn’t forced by her parents—it was a natural overflow of their faith. What they believed about God shaped their daily lives. And because of their faithfulness, my life was powerfully impacted for the better. Even at 12 years old, they gave me a vision for what I wanted my future family and faith to look like. They gave me a longing to have a similar love for God’s Word.
That’s a huge part of my story, and I wanted to start here because we’ll come back to the idea of having a vision for our future faith and making a love for God’s Word a normal, consistent part of our daily lives.
Most of us have a similar vision for our faith—we want this to be true for us—but actually living it out can be challenging. For many, it’s a sore spot in our faith walk. We want to love reading and studying God’s Word, but we just don’t.
I’ll give us all the benefit of the doubt because I’ve been there more times than I care to admit. And this subject deserves a lot of grace. But I also think it’s an area where we need to be challenged. We make a lot of excuses—whether it’s lack of time, boredom, lack of understanding, feeling overwhelmed, fear of failure, or lack of discipline. But often, the real reason is simply that we don’t want to be in God’s Word.
This is true for me too. It’s a daily fight where I think, “Oh, I could do this. But do I really want to? I don’t really want to read my Bible right now.” That’s what we’re up against.
But we both know there’s no good reason or excuse not to love, read, and study God’s Word consistently. And that’s what this episode is about: how can we do that?
It starts with the right perspective.
Like I mentioned, I got this book Grasping God’s Word for my birthday and I’ve already read quite a bit. It’s genuinely really good—I feel like I’m back in college again!
Last night, something really stuck out to me. It was in a chapter on Bible translation, explaining how we ended up with our current English translations.
Here’s what I learned: during the Protestant Reformation, before we had English translations like we do today, translating the Bible into common English for the people was actually a crime.
There are three important figures I learned about:
John Wycliffe, who was the first to attempt Bible translation, was excommunicated from the church. After he died, his bones were dug up and burned because of his work translating the Bible.
William Tyndale—who you might know because of the major Christian publisher Tyndale House Publishers—was burned at the stake in 1536 for his work translating the New Testament.
After Tyndale died, he passed his work on to John Rogers to finish the Old Testament English translation, and he also was burned at the stake.
So all three men who made it possible for us to even have an English translation of the Bible were persecuted and martyred. This was very convicting for me because I have over 10 Bibles in my house, while these three men considered God's Word important enough to translate it—even knowing they were likely to be killed because of it. And persecution and martyrdom aren’t things of the past. There are still 52 countries—yes, 52—where it’s either highly dangerous, highly restricted, or completely illegal to own a Bible. We know these numbers; we just don’t want to think about them.
Listen to this stat: according to a 2013 Barna Group survey—so this data is 10 years old, and I’m sure the numbers are even higher now—the average American household owns 4.4 Bibles, and 24% of families own more than five. However, despite this, 35% of Americans say they never read the Bible, and 60% read it less than five times a year.
So here we have the inspired, divine revelation of the God of the universe—the one who knit our very bodies together in our mother’s womb—sitting commonly on our bookshelves and nightstands, and yet we struggle to commit to more than five minutes of devotional reading in a day or a week. This is convicting, and we can’t—no, I can’t—keep dismissing this reality.
Like I mentioned in the first episode about distraction, we know these things are problems, but it’s become so common in our culture that it doesn’t feel like a big deal anymore. Now, like I’ve already said, this conversation requires so much grace. We have busy lives. It is hard to find the time. The Bible is hard to understand. We struggle with discipline. All of these things are true.
But that doesn’t take away from the fact that the most important thing we can do in a day is spend time with God. Because the Great Commandment and the Great Commission cannot be obeyed and lived out if we aren’t actively and consistently engaging with Scripture.
I recently reread Radical by David Platt—you guys know that book. It kind of went viral in the church about 10 or 15 years ago when it first came out. So good. Very convicting. It caused a lot of people to feel tense about some things, but there’s a lot of good to take from it. A quote that stood out to me, which I just read over the weekend, says this:
“…we have settled far too long with Bible light,” both as individual Christians and as a community of faith. We’ve adopted a Christianity consumed with little devotional thoughts from God for the day, supplemented by church teaching filled with entertainment, stories, and trite opinions on how to be a better person and live a better life in the 21st century. Meanwhile, we hold the matchless Word of God in our hands, and it demands a superior position in our lives, families, small groups, and churches.
Now, before you click off this episode feeling discouraged or ashamed, I want to clarify something. I’m not saying your devotional reading is not enough. Devotional reading is still better than nothing. We all have to start somewhere. In fact, part of my story of how I got to where I am today includes a year of what I call “Bible-light” devotional reading.
But here’s my exhortation in this episode: we can’t be comfortable staying there. Small steps are good. Seasons allow for fluidity. Grace is there for the hard days. But I want to challenge us not to settle for anything less than a persistent pursuit of growing in knowledge and wisdom of the Word. It’s a fluid pursuit—sometimes one step forward, two steps back—but the key is we keep stepping forward in faith by grace.
Okay, by now I’m sure you’re ready to dive into these five steps. And because I want you to listen to this episode in its entirety, I’ve saved the most important step for last—it’s been the most transformative in my journey to loving, reading, and studying God’s Word consistently. So stick around for the end.
Step one in this journey is prayer—but it’s also a forever step. We have to start praying about this and then never stop praying about it. Because here’s the truth: this isn’t just an inner battle between our wills and our wants. This is a spiritual battle.
Ephesians 6:12 says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Kristen Nave from She Loves Bible on Instagram—who I highly recommend following—put it this way: This is not a casual struggle. It’s war. There is a spiritual battle for our affection, and the enemy does not want us to read God’s Word. This is why prayer is absolutely key to overcoming this struggle. We’re not just waging war against our sinful, fleshly desires—we’re waging war against Satan, who would love nothing more than for us to avoid God’s Word.
Honestly, everything is stacked against us: our sinful flesh, all the allure and attraction of the world that distracts us, and the enemy. So if we’re not including prayer in this struggle, we’re going to lose the fight.
God is the only one who can give us a desire for Him. He alone can increase our hunger for His Word. Philippians 2:13 reminds us of this. Remember, in last week’s episode about grace power, we talked about how God not only gives us a desire for His Word but also the power and strength to say no to temptation and yes to time in His Word.
We also have to pray that God helps us overcome this struggle—to make time for His Word, to be disciplined, and to give us the Holy Spirit to understand it. He can do all of that, and He will do all of it because He promises that those who ask for a hunger and thirst for Him will be given one.
But, as I’ve learned in my own walk, it’s not an overnight promise. God works in and through us over time, but He promises to give it, especially to those who ask.
So anytime you struggle with prioritizing God’s Word, instantly begin to pray. Pray while you’re reading so you won’t get distracted. Pray whenever you look at your Bible for a hunger and love for it. Just pray—pray, pray, pray all the time.
Step two is intentionality. As a word nerd, I like to look up definitions. Intentionality means being deliberate or purposeful. The opposite is being unwilling or something happening by accident.
Intentionality is crucial because consistently loving, reading, and studying God’s Word will not happen by accident. We have to be purposeful in this pursuit to be successful.
Ephesians 5:15-16 says, if you go into this journey willy-nilly, without purpose or plan, or with the wrong motives, you’ll likely struggle to stay consistent.
There’s a stark difference between saying, “I want to spend more time in God’s Word,” and actually sitting down to pray and think about what that sustainably looks like in your current season.
What are your goals? Is it reading the whole Bible? Slow studying certain books? Memorizing passages? What hurdles are you facing? Comprehension? Time? Discipline? What’s your starting point? You won’t go from zero to an exegetical study overnight, so be realistic and start small.
But the biggest part of intentionality is your heart posture. This is where it’s easy to miss the point.
We don’t discipline ourselves to become students of the Word just for knowledge or to have all the answers. We don’t do it to check a box or out of obligation. We do it to grow in our knowledge of God, to become wise and mature in our faith, and to be able to lead others to Christ.
Step three continues with this idea of intentionality and will help you answer some of the questions we just talked about.
Step three is have rhythms.
Notice I didn’t say routines. For me, routines feel rigid and legalistic—like if we don’t do them perfectly, we fail. Rhythms, on the other hand, are fluid. They flow with the seasons we’re in.
Routines are checklists; rhythms are cadences. Honestly, rhythms feel more grace-filled and spirit-led than self-driven. They allow for fluidity, function, and freedom, whereas routines can make perfectionists like me feel like one misstep ruins everything.
So what kind of rhythms can help you incorporate God’s Word into everyday life? What might this look like in different seasons?
For me, instead of sequences I do only at certain times of day, I think of rhythms as sequences I follow depending on my intention. I don’t do all these rhythms all the time, and certainly not every day. Some are unique to specific seasons, but hopefully, they’ll give you ideas for your own life.
The first—and most obvious—is having a rhythm of devotional quiet time: your go-to time with the Lord. This has looked very different for me over the past three to five years. I’ve tried a lot of different things, and I’ll probably continue trying different approaches.
But oftentimes, I will get into a flow or a rhythm that I really enjoy and do it for a couple of months. Sometimes it’ll last an entire year. Either way, I typically find something that works and stick with it for a good amount of time before I either take something away or add to it, depending on my season.
I’ve shared this already in a previous episode, but typically—and this is actually an example of reintroducing something—I had already gone through Paul David Tripp’s New Morning Mercies devotional probably two or three years ago. But I was feeling... well, this is where it gets real—I was having a hard time picking up my Bible to read and study it. Once I started, I really enjoyed it. I enjoy reading and breaking down the text. But it was sort of a matter of how do I get past that point of, “Do I really want to do this? Am I about to do this?”
Honestly, I have found that the New Morning Mercies devotional is kind of like a gateway drug into God’s Word for me because it’s so gospel-rich. There’s also a recommended reading at the bottom. So I start with the devotional—it’s a nice, subtle beginning that reminds me of God’s grace and the gospel. By that point, I’m excited and motivated. Then it’s just a nice, fluid transition into whatever I’m going to do that day—whether it’s a devotional reading or, for example, our church is going through Romans right now, so I might read through Romans. Or whatever my Bible study group is working through, I’ll study that passage of Scripture.
From there, I almost always prayer journal.
So this rhythm of having a devotional quiet time is one part. Then I have a rhythm of studying my Bible. I’ve worked through Jen Wilkin’s Women of the Word and kind of have a little mini process. Typically, say I’m going to study Romans 1. This isn’t something I do in one sitting, but this is the rhythm I’m referring to, and it can be spread out over an hour, a whole day, or an entire week—it doesn’t have to be done all at once.
The rhythm of studying that I have is: reading and rereading, then observing by annotating the text and highlighting things that stick out to me. Then I move on to interpretation, where I ask certain questions. From there, I step back and look to apply whatever I’ve learned. The final step is typically working through the discussion questions for my Bible study group.
Now, a new rhythm I’m excited about is this Grasping God’s Word textbook I’m working through—it has workbook-style questions you can work through. So if I sit down and think, “You know what, I want to spend 30 minutes going through this book,” that becomes my personal rhythm of growth in the discipline of studying Scripture.
Some other examples include memorization, which is new for me—getting into a rhythm of memorization. I’ve found a rhythm, but for me, it’s just about plugging in that time during the week. That’s been hard, but I want to grow in that area.
In other seasons, I’ve had a rhythm of listening to the Dwell app during feedings when I have a new baby, or while showering or driving. It’s my go-to—though not my current season, it is my go-to.
Also, there’s a rhythm of family discipleship. Before my kids go to bed, I read their devotional or a passage from our kids’ NLT Bible in a Year, which has a small passage and a little devotional. In certain seasons, I’ll do that.
Sometimes, I just use my one-year ESV Bible, which includes a passage from the Old Testament, New Testament, a Psalm, and a Proverb each day. I like doing that in the evenings.
The key here isn’t to create a routine you never deviate from. It’s to find a multitude of cadences that work for you in each area and return to them time and time again during the week.
Maybe for you, rhythms form best around a certain time of day because that time is guaranteed—maybe mornings before your kids wake up, evenings before they go to bed, during nap time, or lunch at work. Maybe there are a couple of hours throughout the week when you have nothing scheduled.
The beauty of rhythms is they can flow in and out of your season and change shape depending on your capacity.
The goal isn’t perfection. It’s about creating intentional moments where you engage with God and His Word. You can combine rhythms in a day or a week. Maybe on weekends you have more time, so you focus on scripture memorization or study. Maybe you want to replace scrolling with reading, starting with a few chapters from a one-year Bible at night and then reward yourself with a fiction chapter or another book you love.
Maybe you’ve just had a baby and have very low capacity—your rhythm might look like listening to the Dwell app during feedings, showering, or driving. Ultimately, that’s the best rhythm you can incorporate.
And this one might surprise you—it’s not having a perfect quiet time or study rhythm or even an hour of prayer. It’s a rhythm of returning.
This is the most important rhythm you can have: returning to God time and time again. Returning when you fail. Returning for His grace and help. Returning for His guidance, presence, and Word. Returning to your desk where you enjoy studying. Returning to your journal where you pour your heart out in prayer. Return, return, return to the Lord.
Okay, so we’ve covered the importance of prayer and having an intentional plan, which includes daily and weekly rhythms.
Now here’s the not-so-fun part: Step Four is discipline. But don’t be discouraged because, like I said, I really believe Step Five is the most important, though discipline is a close second.
This one’s tough to flesh out because sometimes our brains tune out—most of us struggle with discipline in this area, which is exactly why we’re in this boat in the first place.
Since discipline is unique and personal for each of us, I thought it might help to focus on what keeps me disciplined—maybe it will encourage you.
The first thing that keeps me disciplined is having a vision. It’s exactly what we talked about earlier. There are people in our lives who have gone before us, who paved the way, who are examples we can look to for inspiration and guidance. They become our vision.
Romans 1:11-12 says, “I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.”
The family I grew up around gave me a vision for what intentional, disciplined, consistent time in God’s Word looks like. They modeled how this can dramatically impact every area of life and the lives of others. It’s a ripple effect.
The friends I keep close, the pastors and ministers at my church, the authors I read, the Christian leaders I follow on Instagram—they haven’t grown in maturity by coasting and casually reading God’s Word.
Even biblical characters give us vision. Consider David or the disciples of Jesus.
David says in Psalm 119, “I have stored up your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
The disciples grew up as devout students of Scripture because of their Jewish traditions. Most likely, they memorized the first five books of the Bible—the Torah—by age 10.
Of course, Jesus is our greatest vision. We want to become close to Him and conform to His image. Not only was He the Word made flesh, but His entire life centered on the Word and the will of God.
Having a vision to propel you forward is such a helpful way to stay disciplined in the long run.
Similar to vision, knowing that discipline leads to fruit—and fruit is our reward—is also helpful.
You reap what you sow. Sow many seeds, and you’ll reap a large harvest. Be lazy in sowing seeds, and you’ll reap a small one.
Consider the rewards you want here on earth—like increased patience or wisdom—and also the rewards you’ll have in heaven.
If you tend to get angry, a disciplined effort to memorize verses about anger could yield the reward of not snapping when you want to.
This is something I’m still working on but wanted to provide as an example.
So yes, discipline is important, and I don’t need to break it down further—without discipline, we couldn’t move forward.
Step Five actually ties into discipline because it’s accountability.
Yes, step five is accountability. Physical accountability—like a buddy or group—is how this looks practically.
But let’s back up and talk about this theologically. To explain, here’s a quick funny story.
A few months ago—maybe six months to a year—I was driving to Louisville to go to my now sister-in-law’s bridal dress try-on at David’s Bridal.
For weeks leading up to that day, my tire kept going flat. My husband and I kept pushing off fixing it. We’d just fill it up over and over.
Right before I left for Louisville, we filled it completely. I hoped and prayed I’d make it all the way there without issues.
I got on I-65, about 10 minutes from David’s Bridal, when my tire light came on. I heard a ding and saw my PSI dropping by the minute.
I prayed, “Please God, let there be a tire place near David’s Bridal. Please don’t let me get a flat on I-65.”
No joke—there was literally a David’s Bridal right next to a Discount Tire, like a light shining from above.
I pulled up and asked if they could fill my tire. The guy said, “Ma’am, I can hear it hissing. It’s gone flat.”
I turned around and saw the tire was completely flat by the time I pulled up.
I actually left with four new tires that day and thought I’d never deal with a blinking tire light again.
But a week later, there it was—my front right tire was low again.
Turns out, I didn’t just need a new tire. I needed a new wheel—thanks to the curb I probably hit weeks before.
So humor me with this story. Some of us have a faith with a slow leak. We keep filling it up, but eventually, it ends up flat again. We go to church hoping to patch holes and replace old tires, but our faith still slowly leaks until it becomes flat. And we wonder why and how in the world we’re gonna fix it.
A tire can’t go anywhere without a working wheel. Our faith can also go nowhere without a firm foundation. Now, the foundation is obviously God’s Word, but to take this a step further, the foundational wheel, per se, that I’m referring to is discipleship.
Now, listen to this quote from John Mark Comer. He says, “Both baptizing them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” or what I grew up hearing called evangelism, “and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded,” what is called discipleship.
His point was, so many of us, we were saved at summer camp, or at five, because we grew up in church, we prayed the sinner’s prayer, and we were dunked underneath the water, and we were saved. The call of Jesus is twofold, though. It’s not just be baptized—aka come to salvation, evangelism. It’s twofold. It’s also after that, after you are baptized and after you have become saved, make disciples; become a disciple of Jesus.
The second part of that is teaching them to obey everything I have commanded. And so, at the beginning of the quote, he says, “The gospel has been preached in such a way that you could become a Christian without becoming a disciple of Jesus.” And I, looking back, that is so true for me in my life.
For years, you know, I was saved at summer camp or whatever you want to call it—dunked—but I had nobody who came alongside me and walked the walk with me, who intentionally poured into me and discipled me by teaching me all about Jesus, teaching me the spiritual disciplines, teaching me how to live this life until later on.
So what is my point in all this? And what does it have to do with accountability? Who are you accountable to? Who is discipling you? Who are you discipling? Because if you don’t know the answer to these questions, you probably have zero or little accountability.
A lot of us go to church on Sunday, and we’re in a small group, but how many of us have an older person or a mentor who’s pouring into us, keeping us accountable? And how many of us are accountable to discipling somebody else?
Because the second part of Jesus’ command—to teach them to obey everything I have commanded—is not just for pastors and church leaders. It’s for all of us. God has chosen to include us in His mission, to bring people to Himself and to disciple others in His ways.
So who are you teaching? Who are you pouring into?
When I started leading a Bible study at my church, that’s when I started to see a consistent habit of studying Scripture show up in my life like never before—because I had to. I couldn’t just show up on a Wednesday morning having not done my homework or due diligence.
And you don’t need a formal discipleship group or even to teach a formal Bible study for this to pan out in your life. But could you join one? There is something actually called Bible Study Fellowship. It’s been around forever. They have groups everywhere. You could find a local in-person group in your area or even an online one.
But also, you can just find somebody in your church who leads a Bible study or somebody who you could just say, “Hey, could you mentor me? Could you disciple me?”
And then from there, also be intentional and prayerful about having God put somebody or a group of people in your life who you can intentionally pour into so that you’re accountable to them.
If you’re not growing, how can you then help them grow?
But again, back to the discipline—you get what you put into it. If you decide to join a Bible study group and you do the bare minimum and you show up out of obligation, you’re not going to see much fruit.
And of course, accountability matters. It could also just mean finding a close friend who wants to memorize a portion of Scripture with you and meet up once or twice a month.
The point is, this is an area of faith that you just can’t do alone. Well, really, no aspect of our faith we can do alone. We have to do it in community. But being held accountable and being accountable to somebody else is absolutely key.
Otherwise, you’re just walking this road alone, and you can get away with skating by. You can get away with not reading your Bible.
Okay, we have prayer, intentionality, rhythms, discipline, and accountability. In my personal experience, these five steps have been so important to growing my love for God’s Word and making it a consistent part of my day and week.
So you may be missing little pieces of the puzzle here and there. You may have one but not the other. So consider how you might incorporate one.
I know this was a lot. And the last thing that I will say as just a reminder—because I don’t think we can be reminded enough of this—is lean into God’s grace. Lean into that.
I do not want you guys to feel defeated or discouraged or like you’re going to fail. I think a lot of us don’t start doing something because we fear failure. We fear this idea that, “Oh, well, we’re going to start something and then it’s not going to last and we’re not going to be consistent.” So we just don’t start at all.
And that is one just big fat lie from the enemy. It’s just one big fat lie.
The mentality that we’ve got to have going into this is: I am going to take the steps to pursue Jesus in any way that I possibly can in a way that is sustainable, that works with my season and my capacity. I’m going to try and I’m going to fail. I’m going to try something new. I’m going to utilize resources. I’m going to do my research. I’m going to grow in my knowledge of how to study. I’m going to look for ways to become a student of the Scripture. I’m not going to let myself get defeated. I’m going to lean into God’s grace because God wants me to be in His Word. God wants to know me. He wants to spend time with me.
And the only way that’s going to happen is if we acknowledge that this is going to be a hard, challenging battle that we’re going to have to fight every single day.
It’s never—well, I mean, I say it’s never—it will eventually get easier, but it’s not going to ever get to a place where, “Oh… this is easy. I’m not going to have to fight for this time. I’m not going to have the enemy tempting me to do something else.” It’s always going to be a struggle.
But it’s something that we have to continue to press into and rely on God’s grace for.
Okay, that is all I have for today. If you guys got something out of this or something resonated with you, please take time to leave a review, copy the episode link, share it with a friend. It would mean the world to me.
If you have any thoughts or questions, don’t hesitate to reach out via email.
Thank you guys so much for listening, and I will catch up with you again in next week’s episode.
Books Mentioned:
Grasping God's Word - https://amzn.to/4dhexAP
The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - https://amzn.to/4d8MX8M
The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson - https://amzn.to/3Yupf2r
Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin - https://amzn.to/3WHCCKe
Radical by David Platt - https://amzn.to/3WAniir
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