I have been asked many times what to do when we lose our appetite or grow disinterested in God's Word. I find these words of the great theologian Jonathan Edwards to strike to the core of the matter in that our only hope is a broken contrite heart that cries out in prayer and repentance. And as we abide in Jesus we constantly petition in our dark moments for God to give us eyes to see the richness of his grace. In fact if you read the Psalms it is in many ways this story being played out over and over.
“If the great things of religion are rightly understood, they will affect the heart. The reason why men are not affected by such infinitely great, important, glorious, and wonderful things, as they often hear and read of, in the word of God, is undoubtedly because they are blind; if they were not so, it would be impossible, and utterly inconsistent with human nature, that their hearts should be otherwise than strongly impressed, and greatly moved by such things.” - Jonathan Edwards
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