“They said to each other, ‘Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us?’” (v. 32)

Do you ever get bored while reading the Bible?

Or do you think, “It’s only other people who get it, who know what it means”?

Do you ever read the Word—and feel like it’s just a cold, rote routine?

Here’s a suggestion:

Try reading it with Jesus.

Before you turn to the text, turn to Him, and pray for His presence in the Spirit. Ask Him to show you what He showed the disciples—because they were missing the deeper things, too! Pray that you might be taught the same glowing, shining, burning truth that they were taught.

Ask Jesus to show you how all of it leads to, points to, and magnifies Him—His atoning death, His actual burial, and His victorious resurrection—and ask Him to warm your heart by it.

When you read with Jesus, and when you are rooted in the Gospel, the Word will never seem cold again.

— Tyler