It's not how far we go but how long we spend that matters

I usually walk a certain route which I know is a total of 5km and takes me 1 hour. I push my grandson in the pram (stroller), and he weighs nearly 20 kgs, plus there is the weight of the pram and whatever we put in it, like books for him to read & toys for him to play with. So sometimes I get tired towards the end of my walk & walk more slowly.

One day, as I got near the car, I had to walk beyond the car to make up the full 5kms, but I had already walked for an hour. I was very tired and didn’t feel like going the extra bit. As I inwardly debated whether I should make up the 5 kms, this thought came to me: It’s not how long we spend, but how far we go, that matters, and as that thought came into my mind, I realised that it applied equally to scripture study.

 It’s how long we spend in the scriptures, not how far we read, that matters. We may read only a little, but if we study it and ponder and pray about it, that is more important than hurrying through a certain number of pages to make up our daily quota. We may learn more from that kind of reading than if we rush through a lot.