Caleb writes in to ask this, Pastor John, what do you do when you're bored of reading the Bible?

I pray my little acronym or a cross-dick, what do we call it, I-O-U-S-I-O-U's, and I

say this to only because I take unbelievably strong encouragement from the fact that the

psalmist had to pray this way, that it isn't just the person who asked that question, Caleb,

or me who struggled with feeling excited about the Bible, but the psalmist did. So here's my I-O-U-S-I

incline my heart to your testimonies and not to getting gained some 119 verse 36, isn't that

amazing? That's amazing, that the psalmist would ask God to incline his heart to the word, what,

you're not inclined to the Bible sometimes, Mr. psalmist, or O, open my eyes that I may see

wonderful things out of your word, some 119 verse 18. So the psalmist can go to the word and not

see anything, just like we can stare at a page and some days the pages are blank and we feel

horrible because of how insensitive we are. So we join the psalmist in praying, oh God,

open my eyes, and then you, I-O-U, unite my heart to fear your name, some 119, some 86, 11,

where my heart is all fragmented, it's going in every direction, I'm looking at a fly on the wall

or hearing something in my driveway and I get distracted in 100 ways and psalmist does too and he's

pleading, oh God, get my heart together so it can focus I-O-U and then maybe the most important

one of all satisfy me in the morning with your steadfast love, some 94 verse 11. So that's what I do,

Caleb, I join the psalmist in pleading incline my heart, open my eyes, unite my heart,

satisfy my heart, oh God, don't leave me in this season of boredom or blankness or deadness

and then I got a long list of other things I do, but let me just tick them off, I won't linger

over them long because I think that right there is probably the most important thing but I look at

things that the Bible says about the Bible to rekindle my love for the Bible, your commandment

makes me wiser than my enemies, good, I want that and your commandment is- your words are inspired

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