Consider this

There is no doubt that God wants us to give His Word our full and undivided attention. In laying out His case against Israel, the Holy Spirit directed the prophet Isaiah to write: “My people do not consider” (Isaiah 1:3). Even the casual Bible reader is likely to remember these words. Thorough the Reflectors, we have asked our readers to “reflect” over thoughts God allowed us to reduce to the printed page.
However, “consider” is a far better word. A number of different Greek and Hebrew words are translated “consider” in the English version. The different Old Testament words translated “consider” carry these thoughts: “to see,” “to know,” “to think,” “to calculate,” “to discern.” In the New Testament “consider” covers “to take note of,” “to look carefully at,” “to reckon,” “to perceive,” “to reflect on,” “to ponder.” Thus “consider” in the Scriptures suggests careful examination with a view to discerning and coming to some conclusion. The word can focus on the process as in Jesus’ exhortation “Consider the ravens” (Luke 12:24) or on the conclusion reached as in Philippians 2:6, which asserts that Jesus “did not consider equality with God something to be grasped at).”
Dictionary definitions include “to deliberate upon, examine, study,” “regard, think, think carefully,” “judge,” “pay attention to,” “reflect,” “observe carefully.”
As I share thoughts based on my daily time in the Word of God and my annual trek reading through the Bible that began in 1977 (reading for my spiritual food instead of a message to preach as I had done the previous twenty-four years), it is with the thought that you will “consider” implications for your own spiritual growth in grace and knowledge (2 Peter 3:18).