Two words: history, and mystery. Your walk with God cannot be a historical walk — one built entirely on what He said to Abraham, what He said to Isaac, what He said to Jacob, what He said to Job. If you never move past that, He may never speak to you the way He wants to, because you’ll keep waiting for someone else’s word to apply to your own life.
It’s the mysteries — what God calls your name and says specifically to you — that cause you to walk paths the average person never walks. The church has been stuck in a lot of places because it knows plenty of scripture, but only historically. Memorizing a verse and meditating on it are two different postures. Memorizing stops at information. Meditating lets the word get inside you until it starts to know you back.
Look at Joshua 1:8: meditate in it day and night, so that you make your way prosperous and have good success. It doesn’t say read it and move on. It says meditate — stay with the one verse that’s hot to you until it becomes something you can actually walk in, not just something you can quote.
If scripture remains history to you, you will never experience the glory life it was written to lead you into. The word of God is spirit and life, according to John 6:63 — and notice who it says that word is spoken to. Not to Abraham. Not to Peter. To you.
So the next time you open your Bible, don’t read it looking for information you already have. Read it asking a different question: what is He saying to me, right now, in this exact season? That question is the door between history and mystery — and only you can walk through it.
Apostle's Daily Meditations 