What is your DSP?

What is your Daily Spiritual Practice?

A quick read through a 5 – minute devotion?

Hurriedly read through the chapters in the “bible in a year” plan?

Answer questions in your bible study book, with the mindset of getting through more than getting a spiritual understanding out of it?

That third one can really trip me up. It does not matter, whether I am reading for personal study, preparing to lead a class, or for speaking at a conference, if I am stduying God’s word only to get through it…to find the right answers, I will fall short of getting God’s best out of it.

For me to get the best out of my observation and interpretation of Scripture, I must meditate on it.  A bible dictionary explains meditate this way – to muse on, consider, think on, i.e., ponder and so give serious consideration to information,

Today, I will spend hours mowing an overgrown yard, as I do I will be meditating… img_5764pondering what I have studied this morning. Oh and probably asking Siri to take some notes for me.

I challenge you to take some time to meditate on that devotion you just read or those chapters from your “bible in a year” plan. Likely, you will need to turn off the TV, your music, and silence your  electronic device. But I promise it will be worth it as you invite the Holy Spirit to guide you to a deeper understanding in what you have read.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

Be acceptable in Your sight,

O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14

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Author: Sherry

Sherry is Precept Upon Precept Inductive Study trained leader. She is the Women's Ministry Director and leads women’s bible studies at her church in Bellevue, Nebraska. Sherry also writes materials for and speaks at women’s retreats. She and her husband have recently relocated to the Midwest after living on the East Coast for fifteen years and enjoy spending weekends in Kansas at the family farm.

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