If
you really want to get the wisdom of God, you'll have to do more than
casually read the Scriptures a few minutes a day. You'll have to feed on
them night and day. You'll have to get rid of the rubbish you've been
feeding into your consciousness by reprogramming your mind with the Word
of God.
"Oh, Brother Copeland," you may say, "that's unreasonable!"
Yes
it is. But consider this: A music major in college practices for hours
every day. Olympic skaters spend six to eight hours a day training for
their routines. They do it because they're unreasonably committed to
their goals.
The same is
true for you. If you're going to achieve the kind of spiritual
excellence you're hungry for, you're going to have to be unreasonably
committed to the Word of God.
That
may well mean that you'll have to carry a tape player around with you
everywhere you go. It may mean that you'll have your razor in one hand
and your tape player in the other or a tape player in one hand and a
fork in the other.
Do
whatever it takes to totally saturate yourself with the Word of God. I
would speak to you no differently if I were your commanding officer
about to send you into combat against the best trained elite troops of a
savage enemy.
You are God's frontline assault force. You have an
enemy who is doing his dead-level best to destroy you. In this crucial,
all-out, no-holds-barred offensive, Satan will dispatch hell's choicest
personnel to bring you down. If you're going to make it through in
victory, you're going to have to put yourself in training.
Be unreasonably committed. Get wisdom.
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