Deuteronomy 17Does God Care If I Read the Bible?

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God gave us the Bible, but does he actually care if we read it every single day? The best scripture I know that speaks to this is in Deuteronomy 17. When a king would be anointed to rule, they were supposed to do the following. He shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, and it shall be with him. And he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law in these statues and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandments, either to the right hand or to the left.

So the king of Israel had to write his own handwritten copy of the word of God and read it every single day. And God says so that he would fear the Lord. And all that means is every day God wanted him to read the word of God to know the thoughts of God so that he would have a respect and obedience in order his life and his rule around what God would have him to do.

And you may be thinking to yourself, well, Matthew, I'm not the king of Israel, so why does this apply to me? Well, Peter takes these concepts in first Peter and tells us, we are a royal priesthood. We are priest kings, not because of our own accolades, but because when Christ has called us, he resides within us and he has given us the Holy Spirit, which means he's raised the bar for what we're supposed to do as Christians.

These same concepts of a king ordering his life around God and respecting fear and being in awe of him are actually raised this side of the cross. And so the reason why we read the word every day as Christians is so that we remember who God is and we don't forget who we are in relation to

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