“Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.”
– Psalm 25:4
God has made His ways known to us through His Son (the Word made flesh) and His Word, the Bible. Jesus Christ is the exact image of our invisible God and the Bible is God’s inspired Word revealed through the prophets, apostles, and evangelists of old writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Between them, we have what we need to find salvation through faith in Christ and to pursue a life of Christ-like obedience to the ways of God as we walk His paths.
However, we have terribly short memories! We quickly forget God’s ways and stray from His paths. The chaos and noise all around us help foster this amnesia. The passions and preferences of our bodies and minds tempt us away from following Christ and pursuing personal holiness. This is why we must encounter God’s Son and His Word daily! A once-a-week fill up on Sunday won’t suffice to keep us growing in Christ-likeness. Nor will merely reading about the Jesus or about the Bible. We must read it for ourselves!
We must make a daily encounter with Jesus and the Bible an unshakably high priority. We must set our time with God and His Son in prayer, and His Word in study and meditation apart as the most important appointment of our day, one which is never canceled except in the most extreme of emergencies. Every follower of Christ is gifted with the Holy Spirit to teach us the meaning of the Bible. Every follower of Christ has with what we need to read, study, meditate, and pray daily. But we must make the effort to do so, for it’s only then that we’ll consistently grow in our knowledge and remembrance of God’s ways and walk in His paths.