The things that capture our affection capture our attention. Those who delight in a thing, study that thing. What are you captivated by? What do you pay attention to? What provokes your heart to wonder and amazement? What do you study?
Oh, to wonder at the Word of God, at the works of God, at the attributes of God! To have affection for His name and to be seized by attention to it! To delight in His works and to exhaust our strength in studying them!
This divine study exhausts and satisfies, empties and fills, weakens and renews. Through Jesus Christ, God has become both the pursuit and the reward. He is found in the desert and the ocean, in the valley and on the mountain, in the heat and in the shadow, in the light and in the dark. He is unsearchable (Psalm 145:3), yet searchable through the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-12); unapproachable (1 Timothy 6:16), yet approachable because of the Son of God (Hebrews 4:16); He dwells in a burning bush, yet rides through the highest heavens (Deuteronomy 33:16, 27); He dwells in eternity, yet in my heart (Ephesians 3:17). Oh, to wonder again and again and again...
Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Sure, there’s an explanation for it. But it’s far better to look at it, to stare into it, and to be lost in it, than to simply read about it, to understand it and to try to explain it.
“Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them” (Psalm 11:2).
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