It is a common problem in our day. We get to busy and we miss the very thing that can help us feel like we are moving forward, that we are not lost in the shuffle of life. Are you willing to hear the answer? Do you want to know how to move forward? Well, whether or not you are ready to hear it, I am going to share it with you. I missed it for way to long, I failed at this very thing and I am seeing how important it is. It isn't just in hearing a message on the radio or even TV, it is actually doing it. I personally struggle with reading, not my favorite thing to do, but it can't be about me, but someone much greater then I.
We need to be in the word of God, the bible. Not just self help books, but the actual book that was written to help us along the way. I have heard many people say, well how can that help me along my way, what can it teach me today. In fact I have said it, but the word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. It not only is a light, it is a sword, it is a weapon against the unseen. It is a weapon against our sins. If we just read it we will begin to take it into our hearts, the road to the head to the heart is the longest road and maybe the hardest one as well. Having head knowledge is good, but having heart knowledge is even better. If we know we love someone that is one thing, but you believe that you love that person no matter what, it is the difference between night and day. The heart love is different then the head love and many people miss that. Head is based on things, heart is based on belief, faith and more.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Is it time to take the bible off the shelf, dust it off and start reading the words in it?
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Psalm 119:105 ESV
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Matthew 4:4 ESV
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Joshua 1:8 ESV
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Romans 15:4 ESV
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
Psalm 119:10-11 ESV
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
And this is just some of them. I think the first one is the best. The scripture is for teaching, reproof, training in righteousness.
Is it time that you start nurturing ourselves with the scriptures that God has given us to teach us. Let the scriptures travel from head knowledge to heart knowledge, read and meditate on them day and night, let them sink in. Learn from them and let them help you to change your focus from yourself to God focus.
Have a happy Thursday and may you not just read the word, but begin to know it, believe it and keep it in your heart.
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