Today we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Johnny Gibson entitled,

Help, My Daily Worship Feel Stale.

Johnny is the author of Be Thou My Vision, a liturgy for daily worship from Crossway.

Help, my daily worship feel steel

Written and read by Jonathan Gibson

We've all experienced it, I'm sure,

that time in our Christian lives when our quiet time becomes steel, whether it's due to a lack of

discipline or direction, at some point we feel our hearts grow cold in prayer and our desire to read

God's word begins to wane. William Kuiper captures the experience well. Where is the blessedness I knew when first I sought the Lord?

Where is the sole refreshing view of Jesus and His Word?

When we experience this, it's easy to become discouraged,

especially if we don't know where to look for help.

However, help is at hand in two ways.

First, help from our Savior in heaven.

When we feel a lack of desire to read God's word and pray, The first place we should look is not into our hearts,

but up to our Savior in heaven. Hebrews 4.15 tells us why. For we do not have a high priest

who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Do you hear that? Jesus

sympathizes with our weaknesses because he was tempted, tested as we are in every respect. This means that

Jesus would have been tested in his discipline to read and meditate on God's Word and to persevere in prayer.

Amidst the busyness of daily life, with its distractions and pressures, as well as its exigencies,

Jesus had to set aside time to meditate on Scripture and pray to his father.

In more intense moments of testing, Jesus actively had to strive to meditate on God's Word and trust what it said.

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