Honestly, I do not know how I thought I was going
to make it. I’m not reading The Word, I’m going on past Word stored up and it’s
hardly getting me by- I feel like a car running on fumes.
Is there hope? Actually, none!
Unless I listen to the simple instruction I have
been given- Read the Word. For real! Who lives on stale food? An amount of the
word I had has tided me over thus far but I am starving on current word. What
is applicable to me today!
Then I come across the article in Christianity.com-
Why So Many Churches Hear So Little of the Bible.
It caught my attention. Yep, guilty- I am looking
for what is relevant to my life and
I’m not listening to the Word of God just to hear Him speak. I know in my head
that every time He speaks He ministers something but my heart just can’t trust
enough that what I think is pressing is really not so pressing.
So, I pretty much have one assignment- three
actually, the other two being to be thankful and to worship Him.
But I’ll take this one first. Maybe when I get used
to it I can do the other two although I have a sneaky feeling they should all
three go hand in hand.
A scripture falls into my heart. I do a search to
find it “Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth” It’s John 17:17.
Too many people have sat judge over me. Knowing
nothing they have spoken and done what they will. What they thought they
saw had been so clear... But they had known nothing about it.
I on the other hand have lived for approval. A
person who never cared for this I don’t know when exactly this began to matter
but I know I have done things simply to fit.
Instead of looking for the one solution I had for
my life- the word, His Word!
It was always the only thing that will lead me
through. People around me didn’t know anything about me but they judged. I knew
nothing about where I was coming from and I pandered instead to people’s whims
at some point.
The Word however knows me through and through,
knows who I truly am, where I am going, what is inside of me and does not judge
me, does not demand, does not ask anything but that I do that which is good for
me- and like it or not, only the Word knows that, the Word created me. Why then
is the Word so difficult to follow.
The article said the neglect of the Word can only
lead to disaster, disobedience and death- ask me about that! It also says an impatience with the Word of
God can be explained only by an impatience with God- that cuts deep,
I am paying the price!
Well, my very life depends on The Word now. If I do
only one thing in the day, it’s going to be spending quality time with the
Word- in The Word. It's the only life I've got now.
But who was it that said, when you are left to no
other option but God, you'll find that God is the only option you need?
I know that’s true on my head level. Now I’m just
hoping I get it on my heart level.
