Good Preaching

A Christian ought to love and desire to hear good preaching. It reminds me of the story of the Scottish minister John Macdonald (born 1779). As a young man he loved to hear solid, biblical preaching. One Sabbath day, he had a great yearning to hear preaching, but it was his day to herd the cattle. In his heart, there was a battle between "hearing" and "herding". So what he ended up doing, ingeniously, was to tie all the cattle together, head to tails, in a circle. In that way, the cattle could only move round and round, and so not be able to get into the corn fields. Macdonald then stole away to the church service to hear preaching, and got back before his household came home. He, indeed, is one who had a deep desire to hear the preached word.
And, of course, that begs the question of each one of us: do we have that longing to hear God's word being ably exposited?