In 1991, actress Julia Roberts was asked what object she valued most. “I have a letter from my daddy,” she replied, “the only letter that I managed not to lose as a child . . . If anybody ever took that away from me, I would just be destroyed. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody else, yet I can read that letter ten times a day, and it moves me in a different way every time.”

     The Bible is a personal love letter from God to us. The first stanza of Philip P. Bliss’ hymn about the Bible and God’s love reads: “I am so glad that our Father in heaven/Tells of His love in the Book He has given,/Wonderful things in the Bible I see;/This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.”

     In this Scripture verse the author speaks of the object of his love: “Your law.” The word “law” refers to the Word of God we commonly call the Bible. The word “love” means desire. It implies an intense love. It is a note of exclamation. It suggests an attempt to express one’s feelings for the Bible. We may know God’s Word; we may read it, speak it, memorize it, practice it, and yet not love it.

     Notice the word “meditation.” The root meaning of the word refers to the “chewing of the cud” as a cow chews its food. To meditate on God’s word means to reflect or think on it; to digest it. Notice furthermore that he meditates on God’s Word “all the day.” Bible study is not for the lazy person.

     Finally, the word “Your” is spelled with a capital letter “Y”, an indication that it is the word of the Lord. A young woman laid aside a certain book she was reading because she thought it was dull. Sometime later she became engaged to be married. One evening she said to her fiancé, “I have a book written by a man with the same name as yours. Isn’t that a coincidence!” The man replied, “That’s not a coincidence. I wrote that book!”

     That night she sat up until 3 o’clock in the morning reading the book she once found dull. It was not the most thrilling book she had ever read. She had fallen in love with the author. Is the Bible a dull book to you? Then maybe you should meet the Author. Someone has said, TO KNOW CHRIST, THE LIVING WORD, IS TO LOVE THE BIBLE, THE WRITTEN WORD.