There’s a passage in Ezekiel where the Lord commands Ezekiel to eat a scroll. “Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.’ So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.  He said to me, ‘Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.’ Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.” (Ezek. 3:1-3) The words given to Ezekiel were words of instruction to Israel.

Francis Chan’s Forgotten God is a book of instruction to the church today. When I’m engrossed in a book that instructs me, I use a pen to underline what strikes me. If I want to go back and be able to spot something that particularly touches me, I highlight it in yellow. If it’s something that made me really sit up and take notice, I stick a red flag on the page so I can refer to that info again. And if there’s something I want to definitely take hold of, I dog-ear that page. Does this count as “devouring a book”?