Jason Helopoulos

Maybe it's a yearly plan where you're going to read through the Bible in a year.

Ligonier provides wonderful resources along those lines.

Table Talk does.

Or maybe it's you're going to work your way through a book of the Bible with a commentary alongside of you.

And you're going to delve into the book of Romans and try and understand it better.

I remember hearing Sinclair Ferguson years ago say that that was one of the great things he did early in the Christian life.

He took Murray's commentary on Romans and he sat down and he just studied Romans until he knew it through and through using that commentary.

You could do something like that.

Take a good study Bible where you have those notes at the bottom and you're just reading through the passages and reading the study notes, the Reformation Study Bible or the ESV Study Bible and sowing it in your heart so that you're growing in your knowledge.

And allow that knowledge to inform your heart and stir your affections so that you become more like the one you love.

Just attending to his word.

Man does not live by bread alone, but a hunger and thirst for the word of God.

And just like when you plant a sapling oak tree, it takes time, but it needs nourishment.

It needs that water.

It needs that sun.

So you need nourishment.

So you've got to keep feeding your soul.

You have to keep feeding it.

The second, of course, is prayer.

In prayer, just bowing before the Lord, we're making our requests made known.