"If you don't read the Word and memorize the Word and meditate on the Word daily and delight in the Word and savor it and have your mind and emotions shaped by the Word, you will be a weak Christian at best. You will be fragile and easily deceived and easily paralyzed by trouble and stuck in many mediocre ruts. But if you read the Word and memorize important parts of it and meditate on it and savor it and steep your mind in it, then you will be like a strong tree planted by streams of water that brings forth fruit. Your leaf won't wither in the drought and you will be productive in your life for Christ (see Psalm 1). Christian living means living on the written Word of God, the Bible. In true Christian living, our relation to the Word is intentional, not haphazard. It's active not passive. We pursue it and don't just wait for it to happen." - John Piper

^{psalm 1:2} But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
       and on his law he meditates day and night. 

O, how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! psalm 119:97, 103

this is something i've been thinking a lot about lately. even though i know all of this to be true, i often need to be reminded. it's easy to get caught up in the busyness of life - crossing things off the to-do list and running from place to place, without really meditating on God's Word daily.