{"id":451,"date":"2006-12-24T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/12\/24\/on-reading-better\/"},"modified":"2006-12-24T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T13:05:19","slug":"on-reading-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/24\/on-reading-better\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reading Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are truths you didn&#8217;t learn in English class.&nbsp; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/Brooks\/Thomas_Brooks.htm\">Thomas Brooks<\/a>, &#8220;The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,&#8221; via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/\">GraceGems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You must <b>meditate <\/b>and dwell upon what you read; otherwise your pains and mine will be lost. The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more deep and firm impression is made upon his heart by truth. Heavenly meditation brings out the sweetness that is in divine truths. Not those who <i>get <\/i>most&#8211;but those who <i>keep <\/i>most, are richest. So not those who <i>hear <\/i>most, or <i>read <\/i>most&#8211;but those who <i>meditate <\/i>most, are most edified and enriched. <\/p>\n<p>You must also <b>practice <\/b>and live out what you read. To read much and practice nothing&#8211;is to hunt much and catch nothing. Ah! what cause have most to sigh, that they have <i>heard <\/i>so much, and <i>read <\/i>so much&#8211;and yet <i>done <\/i>so little! <\/p>\n<p>You must also <b>pray <\/b>over what you read. Many read much, and pray little, and therefore get little by all they read. Galen writes of a fish called <i>Uranoscopos<\/i>, that has but one eye, which looks continually up to heaven. When a Christian has one eye upon his book&#8211;the other should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are truths you didn&#8217;t learn in English class.&nbsp; From Thomas Brooks, &#8220;The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,&#8221; via GraceGems. You must meditate and dwell upon what you read; otherwise your pains and mine will be lost. The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more deep and firm impression is made upon\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/24\/on-reading-better\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}