God’s word

One day while some of us were volunteering at a ministry that distributes used bibles and materials around the world, I was visiting with the man who started it. He said that many pastors around the world teach with only one or two pages out of the Bible because it’s not available to them. One man had been teaching for two years on only half of the book of John. We take for granted here that God’s word is available to us in plenty. Some of us have more than one Bible and commentaries and maybe have it on our phones. What’s sad is that our bibles are dusty. The man who was teaching with only the book of John had worn the pages to where they could hardly be read any more! How would it affect us if we no longer were able to have access to a Bible? When God gave his law to Moses to give to his people listen to what he told them. Deuteronomy6:7-9 these commands I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home or when your walking down the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them to your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and to your gates. Do you think God was trying to make a point of how important his word should be? When we take a quick glance at something and then don’t look at it again for a long while we forget what it looks like. We have a weak human memory. Repetitively looking at something often though will give us the ability to remember and each time we look we get more and more details. Have you had someone in your life that has changed glasses or hair style and you might see them a couple times before you notice it? God’s word wasn’t meant to be glanced at once a week or less. It is to be absorbed into our being. It should be vital to our very existence. Jesus himself said man can’t live on bread alone but on every word that comes from God! Let’s blow the dust off of our bibles together and start wearing out the pages! There are so many things to learn about God, ourselves, the world and what an adventure it will be!! Thank you Lord God for your word to us!! Help us to make it the most important thing of our lives!!