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<center>**READING  TO DEEPEN YOUR  UNDERSTANDING AND THUS YOUR  LEARNING.**</center>




Books lay the strongest claim to immortality of all articles upon the face of the earth, as the most enduring creation of man. Books are link- bridge connecting the past with the future. Books connect the living with the wealth of wisdom of the past. Imagine what rich resource that avails the avid reader. The bible for instance has some portions written over 3500 years ago. Some Chinese writings have been discovered that are over Qing and Ming dynasties. Another ancient text is the Code of Hammurabi, a collection of Babylonian laws that is said to predate the Law of Moses.


_Clarence Day_ wrote, 
>‘The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After an era of darkness, new races build others; but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they are written.’


How true! Books, without dispute, are conveyors of the wisdom of the civilizations.


Because of this peculiar quality, books become the ideal conduit for the prophetic. God be thanked for Prophets, and for the office of the prophets, but where would their prophecies be without books to convey them to later generations? The holy men who spoke with the spontaneity of the prompting of the Holy Spirit would have become tragically lost but for scribes, the writers of books (manuscripts and scrolls really) who captured topical messages so that the chronicles defied the death of the Prophets.


>_And he said, Go thy way Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Daniel 12:9_

•	Inside what vehicular format were the words closed up and sealed? Inside books!

The story of the composition of the individual books of the Holy Bible makes for interesting read as remarkable as were the lives of the men themselves. The Angel of the Lord gave messages to faithful men and they were careful to record what they had heard and ‘seen’.

•	_BOOKS, SELF DEVELOPMENT & CREATIVE POTENTIAL._


Of all the prime creativity-activators that I know of none stimulate like good books. Reading is a one-way route out of ignorance and education the shortest route to intellectual achievement. Nothing excites the power of imagination as books can.

_William Ellery Channing_ wrote that, 

>“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls to us. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of ages past. Books are true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race”.


One of the indisputable weakness of our country’s educational system is not merely tumbling standards and the ‘poor economy’, but a grievous dearth of relevant texts to FILL thirsty minds. The reading of books lighted a bright light inside my darkened personal space. I would have loved to give you six or seven steps to more effective reading, but none of them, as far as I am aware, can arouse desire in you to read or do anything remotely connected to study. You MUST decide to read books, and then go ahead to read!


One definite step you must however take is to eschew the rigour and stricture of studying as in studying for academic work. You should appreciate the intrinsic value of books outside of any formal or informal institutions. An acute awareness of defined realities could help you achieve an obligatory repositioning, found the following counsel helpful: 

•	I do not read to intellectualize my discovery; 
•	I do not read to pass school examinations only; 
•	I do not read to feed my presuppositions rather I read to deepen my understanding and thus my learning.