Many saints today go hungry during their daily ‘Quiet Time’.
1) STARVATION RATIONS. They read the Word, but to little profit because they will not meditate upon what they read. Is it because they do not have the time? No! It is how they subordinate the time slot to their own prepared agenda.
2)a. ARE YOU A MARY OR A MARTHA? Which is more important: the word volume read, or hearing the voice of Him ‘the Word’ in the words? Which is paramount: covering the set chapter/s, or unhurriedly expecting the inner ‘Interpreter’s voice?
b. WAITING TO BE SERVED The saints who wait patiently at His table will certainly be fed with more than crumbs that are under the table. When such a reader readily pauses for the inner Teacher’s voice, sacrificing his own preconceived plan he becomes known to God as a WATCHER or WAITER.
Why eat only crumbs?
c. MARTHA SYNDROME Other believers fill their day’s timetable scheduling a small slot to Scripture in which time is of the essence. But often their priorities are amiss when they allow none for uninterrupted seclusion.
d. IS YOUR BUSINESS BUSY-NESS? Today’s reader mistakenly thinks only in goal completion. Targets are a good idea, but haste and clock watching are impediments to the saint.
e. DISTRACTIONS are common, more so today surrounded by technological devices galore. It takes effort to find space and privacy from the hubbub of the maddening crowd encroaching on the believers’ privacy. It also takes determination, perseverance and outright resistance to peer group and family pressured demands. It may also mean occasional sacrifice and self denial of food, sleep, and social media addiction.