Taken from Back To The Bible
In Woodrow Kroll’s devotion Early In the Morning, he told of a story about a man named Andrew Frazer.
I wish I could be like this man. This man had a worn Bible. When he spoke before a crowd about Christian things he spoke and expounded on details most people don’t realize.
Later a man named H. A. Ironside asked Frazer how he became so learned in the Bible. I love his reply . . . He said,
“My dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of Ireland. There, with my open Bible before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.”
I wanna be like that and I wanna teach our 4 children such an attitude.

If you look at the practical side of this discipline, basically you get up early in the morning, you get on your knees, you say the same prayer everyday, something like “Jesus, I ask that you would teach me important things from Your Word.” Then you start reading. Personally, if I was on my knees, about 2 minutes after I started my knees would be hurting, so I would have to get a pillow or something. Then I would have the struggle of staying awake and keeping my brain focused on reading the Bible. (I would have to read each word aloud). And I would have to start out at praying for 10 or 15 focused minutes, not an hour. And another thing that makes this Bible discipline difficult is that you mostly get no encouragement from anyone because you are doing it when noone is around. And to be honest, I suppose it relates to stubborness and arrogance but I just don’t really want to get on my knees before God. (And to be even more honest, I’ve prayed on my knees in the past and would get “spiritual arrogance”, thinking how much better I was than an “average Joe” Christian.
But I would still like to try this. I consider it a very noble and Godly deed. I wanna have this discipline in our family. I wish all six of us would have the passion for God’s Word to learn this way.
Back To The Bible passage:
Today, in the twentieth century, Jesus does not speak to us and teach us as He did early in the morning in the temple, but He still speaks to us through His Word, God’s Word the Holy Bible. We have the benefit of hearing the very same teaching that these heard who came at the dawning of the day to the temple. We can sit at the feet of Jesus today by reading His Word.
H. A. Ironside told of a godly man named Andrew Frazer, who had come to southern California to recover from a serious illness. Though this Irishman was quite weak, he opened his worn Bible and began expounding the truths of God’s Word in a way that Ironside had never heard before. So moved by Frazer’s words was Ironside, that his curiosity drove him to ask, “Where did you learn these things? Did you learn them in some college or seminary?” The sickly man said, “My dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of Ireland. There, with my open Bible before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.”
To spend time in the Word of God yields a much richer understanding of the deep things of theology than to spend time in a classroom. For the person denied a formal education in Bible and theology there is no shame if we spend time at the feet of Jesus. From early in the morning, throughout the day, and into the evening hours the great scholars of the Word become so because of time spent in God’s Book and on their knees. Each of us has the same opportunity to do that. Let’s take that opportunity today.