David Matthis offers advice to seminary students that is appropriate to all Christians. He writes,
And keep in mind that having a daily “quiet time” or “devotions,”
without communing with Jesus, won’t keep your soul alive. Mere reading
and studying won’t do it. By itself, new information about God—glorious
as it is—won’t keep our hearts soft and our souls breathing. We need the
person of Jesus himself whom we find in and through the Scriptures. Our
souls long for a living connection with the living God-man. We were
made for this.
We can never afford to settle for anything less than the words of the Bible, but extreme as it may seem, our souls need more than words,
more than facts, more than studies and new head knowledge. We need the
Word himself. Our souls need Jesus to survive. And for now, the
devotional imbibing of the Scriptures is an essential place to find him.
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