Monkey on my back

I've gotten into a discussion over at Steve Camp's blog over sola fide and the role of works. The chap I've been debating with (who's been a gent about it, BTW), I clicked over to his blogger profile out of curiosity, and found myself slapped with a wonderful summing-up of the desire for Christ:

* I love mathematics and the sciences * physics * chemistry * astronomy but my number 1 passion is expositional study of the Word of God. I am addicted * hooked * if God's word were a monkey it would be on my back and I would feed until it over took me.

I love the Bible, but I wouldn't have thought of it in those terms. May the Lord make me just as addicted to His word.