Survival Guide

If you look on the internet there are a lot of survival books, from surviving the wild, to making the best shelters and so on. You name it, it has probably been written. In those books there are guides to what needs to be done to do just that survive. If I just have the book, it does not make me an expert. There are steps to using those books.

1. I must read it
2. I must practice the techniques it suggests.
3. I must put it into practice in my life.
4. And I must reread it, over and over again, because it is easy to forget the truths it contains. Maybe even read other books that have other survival techniques to understanding the guide. 
5. I must continue to practice these truths.

In our lives, God gave us a survival guide, it is called the Bible. If we do not put do the above steps to the Bible, we are not preparing ourselves for every day life. If we do not put His truths to practice, we are no better than having a survival guide, but never opening it, never practicing it, we will not survive. We will die, because we do not learn the truths. 

The Bible is full of such truths to survive life, marriage, raising kids, dealing with difficult people, we can read it, but if we do not practice what is written on the pages, we will not survive, we will not grow and learn. We may just make it through by the skin of our teeth, but who wants to just slide through, when God promises so much more, if we are to learn and grow in His truth. 

What is God saying to you about His guide? Are you in it? Are you practicing it? Take a chance to seek God, see what He is saying to you. 

God has given people the ability to write, to share their findings, what they have learned about raising kids, about marriage, about so much, but if we do not read those truths, we will have to learn it for the first time. Learn from others, learn what they did wrong and learn from the truths that they want to share, biblical studies. It will allow you to grow closer to God and to grow in understanding and learning. 

Don't be like the foolish and think that just because I have a survival book on my shelf that makes me a survival expert.