Hey Friends...
The most precious possession is held by so many of us, we often don't realize the weight of what it is we own.
Tonight as I watched the movie 'The Book of Eli', I was completely overwhelmed by the absolute gift I am able to hold in my hands each and every day, that I own the word of God. The man in the movie dedicated his life towards making sure God's word was preserved. (please use viewer discretion if watched, it's very violent)
I had tears streaming down my cheeks as I watched, because I so often take for granted what an honor it is to have what I do. What an incredible book, a book filled with the very thoughts of my God, our living God. Words that are alive!
As a Bible teacher I think I am often accustomed to reading the Bible, to mostly understanding what it says, to do my best to live out the conviction of the words on the page, to receive the incredible Love God has for me...and in that I can so easily forget the precious pages that lay open in my hand.
Easily forgetting that there are still those brothers and sisters in the world that don't have this gift available to them, they must eat on the same words daily, those words that they have secretly memorized in their hearts.
I am still processing what God is laying on my heart, but with heavy conviction felt the need to challenge those of us who are believers, to take the knowledge we have been given and learn how to carry out the responsibility we have as His children, understanding what God's word is meant for, that it's not for us to selfishly eat on and gorge ourselves...but it's for us to live out and 'exercise' what is written.
To feed the hungry, to love the widow and the orphan, to bring life to the dead...to give them an understanding that God loves them, that He loves all of us so much that he not only gave us his Son, but he has given us our history in words, he has breathed out his very own breath upon pages as a gift.
A God that violently pursues people, with Love.
Tonight I am challenged with not only the responsibility to read his word, but to do my best to live it out in the way that it commands. Meanwhile not forgetting what's in front of me, a beautiful melody written out in words.
If you pray for me I would ask that as I step into staffing 2nd quarter of SBS, going through the Old Testament and specifically 1 & 2 Samuel, I desire my hunger for God and his word to grow more deeply within me than it's ever been. That I could be someone that walks in the understanding that what I have before me is the most precious possession given.
