The Word

What is with this Bible complex of mine. I don't read my Bible but I don't really know why. I suppose most of the time I wake up in the morning and am excited about the day and just don't want to sit in my room any longer and read it. SO TAKE IT DOWNSTAIRES! Gosh. Okay, so it's hard for me to just sit and read my Bible. I want to, for sure, or do I...the truth is, I don't most of the time. I know that's no excuse because I should read it even when I don't want to..it's not some casual novel I can pick up when I like, it's the Word of God. I think I've forgotten who's the authority in my life. I'm pretty sure I've forgotten who God is and how he feels towards me. Last night as I was praying I was trying to work out with the Lord what I've been feeling towards him lately and what came to mind was...Spiritually under nourished. WHY? OH! Because I'm not reading my Bible. What is it going to take for me to actually read it?! "God please give me a desire to read you word, it's the bread of life and I'm spiritually anorexic right now." You know, that's interesting, I think that I've definatly been spiritually bulimic before too. I fill up on good spiritual feelings of God and almost like a crash diet I go out and change my ways drastically but it's roots arn't firm in me because after the spiritual high ends I assume God' left the building. WRONG but that's often my mental inclination.
This is a realyl great song below. It's by Sara Groves and I just love it. Check out the Words!

I've done every devotional
Been every place emotional
Trying to hear a new word from God
And I think it's very odd
That while I attmept to help myself
My Bible sits upon my shelf
With every promise I could ever need

CHORUS:
And the Word was
And the Word is
And the Word will be

People are getting fit for truth
Like they're buying a new tailored suit
Does it fit across the shoulders
Does it fade when it get older
We throw ideas that aren't in style
In the Salvation Army pile
And search for something more to meet our needs

CHORUS

I think it's time I rediscover
All the ground that I have covered,
Like seek ye first what a verse
We are pressed but not crushed
Perplexed but don't despair
We are persecuted but not abandoned
We are no longer slaves
We are daughters and sons
And when we are weak we are very strong
And neither death nor life nor present
Nor future nor depth nor height
Can keep us from the love of Christ
And the Word I need is the Word that was
Who put on flesh to dwell with us
In the beginning

CHORUS