Day 56Mornings with God

Reading the Word in the Morning

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Isaiah 50:4

What a moving image. God waking the ear — opening the capacity to hear before the day even begins. Like a teacher who calls the student and says, "Pay attention. I'm going to teach you something."

Opening the Bible in the morning is one of the most transformative practices there is — simple in form, profound in its consequences. Not because the letters themselves hold magic, but because it's there that God's voice is revealed with clarity. It's where He speaks consistently, reliably, personally.

"As a disciple." A disciple is someone who learns. Who sits and listens before speaking. Who opens her heart before having all the answers. That posture changes the reading — it stops being a task and becomes a conversation.

Today, open the Word without rushing. It can be a chapter, it can be just one verse — but open it. And ask God to wake your ear to hear what He wants to tell you.

Prayer

Lord, wake my ear this morning. Speak to me through Your Word. Let me be a disciple — open, attentive, willing to be taught. Amen.