Cultivating a Passion for God's Word

Sisters of Mount Carmel, I hope you've decided to join us on our journey this year through the Bible!  If not please join us..it's never too late!  Get a reading plan or a devotional daily Bible and start reading..for it's in making the choice each day to make Bible reading a priority that it becomes the desire of our heart! When we intake the Bible, regularly and consistently, we want more of it...yet, when we neglect our Bible reading, our hunger and thirst for it lessens each day!  So true!

This lesson is a summary of the first lesson in the Bible Study: Read the Bible for Life by Dr George H Guthrie. For more in-depth study, you can purchase the workbook or check in each month for a new lesson posted on the blog. 

Our first topic this month is about cultivating a desire for the Word by checking the condition of our hearts for receiving for God's Word.  Our study takes us to Mark 4:1-20 and the Parable of the Soils.  Please take some time to read and meditate on this passage.  There are four types of soils that illustrate the condition of our hearts:

• Soil on the path: a hard-packed heart (Satan prevents the Word from penetrating our hearts)
• Rocky soil: a shallow heart (Word is received but develops no roots)
• Thorny soil: congestion of a weed-choked heart (worries and desires choke the Word)
• Good soil: a receptive heart (Word is received and produces fruit)

What is the condition of your heart?  What will you do differently to make space in your heart to receive God's Word?  Please share your experience this month as you study this passage and prayerfully consider what God is speaking to your heart.