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Old Fashioned Reading

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."
Col. 3:16


    It's hard to do that if you can't remember what you read. I have heard this many times.

   "I can't remember the book, chapter or verse but I know it’s on the right side and at the bottom of the page. Ah, here it is!"

     You know scripture is God breathed (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Faith comes by hearing the word of God (Rm. 10:17).  Paul tells Timothy to preach the word (2 Tim. 4:2). Christ tells us to observe everything He commanded (Matt. 28:18-20 *20). The 3,000 continued steadfast in the apostles teachings, Christ commands (Acts 2:42). The word is there so that we may know for certain what we have been instructed (Luke 1:1-4; John 20:30-31 & 21:25). Acts 17:11 the more fair-minded searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

   It’s important that we let the word of God dwell in us richly. It is the only way we know what we are doing and how to please God. If we can’t remember it, what good is it? Wouldn’t that make us like the man who looked in the mirror then walked away and forgot what he looked like (James 1:22-25)? An e-book or phone app has everything on the same page. It is very hard to recall page location if you’re struggling to remember a verse. According to this research that’s not the only thing that’s hard to recall.  


    "A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story on a Kindle were significantly worse at remembering the order of events than those who read the same story in paperback. Lead researcher Anne Mangen of Norway's Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tactile feedback of a Kindle does not provide the same support for mental reconstruction of a story as a print pocket book does.""

"The inability to flip back to previous pages or control the text physically, either through making written notes or bending pages, limits one's sensory experience and thus reduces long-term memory of the text."

"Tufts University neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf worries that "the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing." Individuals are increasingly finding it difficult to sit down and immerse themselves in a novel."

Take a minute and read the whole article:
http://mic.com/articles/99408/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books

 

    I’m not saying the phone apps or kindle bibles are a bad thing. Just saying that the old fashion reading, you know a real page bible, is better. Perhaps it would be a good idea next time you head off to the worship assembly or sit down to study that you grab the old leather bound. Who knows you might find you can remember more.


 Read your bible not your phone with an app or kindle. Just saying  J

 

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