Below is the short A.W. Tozer devotional I received for today:

Some things may be neglected with but little loss to the spiritual life, but to neglect communion with God is to hurt ourselves where we cannot afford it. – The Root of the Righteous, 9.

Personal Life: To Think God’s Thoughts

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.–Psalm 1:2

To think God’s thoughts requires much prayer. If you do not pray much, you are not thinking God’s thoughts. If you do not read your Bible much and often and reverently, you are not thinking God’s thoughts….

There also has to be a lot of meditation. We ought to learn to live in our Bibles. Get one with print big enough to read so it does not punish your eyes. Look around until you find a good one, and then learn to love it. Begin with the Gospel of John, then read the Psalms.

Isaiah is another great book to help you and lift you. When you feel you want to do it, go on to Romans and Hebrews and some of the deeper theological books. But get into the Bible. Do not just read the little passages you like, but in the course of a year or two see that you read it through. Your thoughts will one day come up before God’s judgment. We are responsible for our premeditative thoughts. They make our mind a temple where God can dwell with pleasure, or they make our mind a stable where Christ is angry, ties a rope and drives out the cattle. It is all up to us. Rut, Rot or Revival: The Condition of the Church, 42.

Of course. thinking God’s thoughts might end up changing what we like to talk about the most, even where we work, play, and/or study as ordinary people in the ordinary environments of life in general.

How is it that we evangelical Christians can gather for specifically Christian topics/endeavors and talk about everything except what we have just read in Scripture, how God has blessed us recently, divine appointments in which we shared the Gospel, or other spiritual topics? We do this even in church on Sunday mornings, switching gears at the appropriate ‘time’  – when the service ‘officially’ begins.

How genuine is my profession that God is of first importance and all else follows in my life, if He is also not my favorite topic of conversation? That is what this old guy asks himself this morning.

Food for thought. . .