Perhaps he was right?!

A while back, when I was studying, I was chastised for ‘reading too much’. Now it’s fair to say that at the time, given the collegiate context, that I thought this a rather queer (in the old sense of the word!) charge to bring, a strange admonishment to make – I mean, when it comes to studying and learning, can you read too much? (another Tuesday night discussion point?!). But the other day at church, whisper it quietly(!), I began to wonder if he didn’t have a point - let me explain.

My ‘wonderment’ stemmed from when a friend of ours was about to embark on two years training for Salvation Army Officership and her husband was invited to share some words of ‘encouragement’. This he duly did by encouraging her ‘not to get bogged down in study, but to get bogged down in the One she studies’. In his own unique way he used Ecclesiastes 12:12 to emphasis his point:

‘Be warned… of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body’!

Too much reading? Perhaps he was right?!