@ENKELI A share you a few things i learned and that helped me learn to love The word of God above all written words.
(Please do understand that not only did i hardly ever read God's Word before i leaned to love the book meeting Jesus in my heart, in the past i had often i strong feelings of animosity against it. Thinking/feeling The bible did not know what life in the 20 century was about. (Like i charged the book of Proverbs, Scriptures seemingly sexist, and what i termed at the time paradoxical comments, and of course the book of Revelation, where it seemed to me that the Saviour of the world really ended up much more its judge, and God's grace, supposedly for all, appeared invisible to those living fallen lives down here.)
- To not understand God's word to be literally but ONLY spiritually as been my biggest Teacher ever. Where i let The Word teach me to understand The Word, and that only His truth i trust to say what God says in His Word, not what others have said, spoken, or written, about God or His Word. Never again will i let others tell me things about about God's Word, however useful such can be, as God's Word to me, but only when The word speaks/reveals His truth to me, as The Living Word, will i believe what i hear/live inside of me.
- i learned to read the word of God as Jesus/God talking to me, and learned to only HEED Him where inside my heart He talked to me. God speaking to to me the sheep and to those ugly goats hiding in the shadows pulling the strings without me knowing or seeing them do this. The Spirit of Jesus always speaks the Word in love for God The Father, you with the love of God, and your neighbour with the same love. Only then do i know it is he truth of the Word of God speaking and not satan imitating the Spirit, but a wolf in sheep clothing to be. The good thing i learned to understand is that the devil cannot pretend to love God, us, or others than self interest, a selfish spirit can never hear the word of God rightly, for a selfish spirit has no concern for the interest of others.
- i never read the word of God when feel pressured in my heart to do so, but only when The Holy Spirit in my heart calls me to. The Holy Spirit has me want/love/need/crave/curious after God's Word!
- When i seek God's Word to me i will always open the Word of God randomly, to let God speak, not what i feel i need to read, or have confirmed to be true. And if i do not understand why He has me read what i read, i ask Him to reveal it to me, by opening my eyes to His truth and AWAIT His answer. For i trust God to never say anything to me without the purpose of doing/building Good to/in me. (Isaiah 55)
- i never speculate on the meaning of God's Word any more. For in the end, me speculating about God's word in me, had me fall big time believing lies about God, myself and my neighbour. Me erroneously heeding, what later The Holy Spirit revealed to be the False Prophet in my mind, and his unfaithful frog-demons rioting and fighting, always jumping around in my fallen reality whn the fresh waters in my life have turned to blood/bitter/wormwood..
These revelations of, and about God's word in me, and to me, proved to be a real eye opener. For Scripture revealed the Red Dragon, as that horrible accuser within my guilty conscience, while that inner voice/thoughts always speculating on everything The Word of God said, the voice of the false prophet, while my sin craving heart ruling me only ungodly kings, untrue, not true me, to be liberated from.
Even as my religious ways turned out to be the very 'unfaithful love' within me riding The Beast ruling my mind with carnal laws, values, rules, and the self created misery they bring inside of me heeding them. And these unholy forces inside of my heart had clearly activated all my bad life inside of me. (Yet me understanding forever the word of God as purely spiritual, and as true, as true Jesus, could ever be true inside my heart to be! The Living Word speaking in love fore all never ever lies to me or puts me under any kind of pressure rather He sparks love for God, self and other inside of me.😁)
i hope this will be helpful learning to love the word of God and not to feel bad not reading it, but understanding that not living His truth, is when we miss out big time on His Good Life. For it is not the book/letter you are after, nor more religious conviction, but The Living Word, Jesus our Saviour, The word of God reveals within to us, as His Spirit Alive within.(John 14-17)
Here another person who has been taught to read the bible to his heart. Although i do not know him personally, it has been very good to see he understands the the personal truth of God's Word to be Jesus within us as well.
