Eat This Book Essay

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At first glance, this book had me a little unsure. I was unsure on why this book was called “Eat this Book”, and I was unsure on what the contents of this book would be. I feel like this book has taught me a lot and I will be able to apply it daily to my life. “Eat this Book” that opened my eyes further into spiritual reading and really broke it up for me. It has given me a want to improve my own spiritual reading and do it more than only for an assignment. When looking at the title, “Eat this Book”, even my mom was skeptical about the title. I remember her saying,” That’s a weird title for a book. I wonder why it is called that. Why would you want to eat a book”. Not to far into the book I was able to tell my mom why it was called “Eat this Book”. Eugene Patterson did a good job titling this book and really making sense of why he titled this book. As christians we need to eat up the Bible. “Eating a book takes it all in, assimilating it into our lives” (p. 20). I never really thought about ‘eating’ up a book . But the Bible deserves to be. Christ would have wanted us to take in it fully, and apply to our daily lives. That is the whole point of him given us the Bible. So that we can …show more content…

I am going to start to just have conversations with God and not so much worry about saying the right things to him. I think Contemplating the Bible will be easier. I am going to start using this as much as I can. Whether it is when I am drive back and forth to school and seeing the beautiful world that God has created. Or when I am reading the Bible and praising him. I am going to start to see the word of God in my everyday life. And see that this is his beautiful world that he created and we are getting the opportunity to live in it and worship his awesome

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