Undone

I’ve been reading through Nehemiah and these verses hit me recently:

Ezra opened the [the Law of Moses]…and as he opened it, the people all stood up…and lifted their hands and responded, “Amen! Amen!”  Then they bowed down and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. …all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.

Nehemiah 8:5-9

The whole of the people’s response above is sadly different from the whole repose that I often have…

I revere and love God and His Word and am regularly convicted and encouraged as I study it…but a complete response like the one in Nehemiah 8:5-9?

It can be easy to fall into a rote mindset when reading God’s precious Word – familiar stories, characters, themes, etc. – without regard for or response to the powerful lifesaving, life-changing and life-shaping power of it.  May it not be so in me.

forgive me Lord for often being casual and response-less when reading Your Word…
may i have an awe that is beyond the “awe” i have for things apart from You…
…may i be undone by Your Word.

When was the last time you were undone by God’s Word?