I wanna know more

2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

The apostle Paul was pointing Timothy to both the false teachers of the day, how he was to deal with them, and Who he was ultimately held accountable to. He was ministering God’s Word; he was delivering the words of God to those that God had prepared their hearts to hear. He was not to take this responsibility lightly, he was to invest time in diligent prayerful study of God’s Word to rightly present it. The weight of any teacher of the truths of God is a great; the weight that they feel in their soul should be great; they should know they are judged to a stricter standard of accountability by God.

Do you have that drive within? Do you truly want to know and understand more of the truths of God? That hunger you are either feeding in His Word, or suppressing in disobedience to that calling, is how you are held in approval to God. Paul is telling Timothy to be diligent; not lazy, not half-heartedly, not when he had time to read his Bible, not only on Sunday, not to give God anything less that what He deserves. Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. You can’t claim the promises of Christ and remain in this world. You cannot pray a prayer for your soul, and not feel the tug to know more about the Savior of it. How can you say that you are a child of His, and not have the desire to know more of him? How will you answer to him,when he asks why you were so busy in what did not matter for your short time here? What could possibly be more important that spending time with God in prayer and his Word every day? What if He, and not I, asked you that question?

Pray for God to change your heart and place that desire within for more of Him. Pray that He will give you that tug to open the Bible just for a short time every day. In those early beginnings, their will be an expectancy grow within you that you cannot imagine NOT spending daily time with Him. If you are already feeling those desires, and the world is suppressing them, you are grieving the Holy Spirit living inside of you (Ephesians 4:30). A heartfelt prayer, and a conscious effort to open His Word every day, will forever change your days here unto eternity.