Read the Word

Ella says, “MomC, do you have an iPad?”  “Yes, I have an iPad.”  “Will you please go get it – I want to watch KidFlix.”  [Pause-Blink-Cough]“What is KidFlix?”  “You know, it’s for kids!”  That’s the second best thing about hanging around the Grands – we learn so much!

 

We live in an age of information dissemination - books, television, Internet - you name it – one way or another, we have access to it.  Of course, there's good and bad, positive and negative, truth and lies, nonetheless we benefit from the accessibility.  The Old Testament tells of  a time when "the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision." (1 Samuel 3:1).  While there are many today who are apathetic to (don’t care about) God's voice, would even welcome His silence, but imagine a world where "the word of the Lord was rare."  True, days of the prophets are past but God still speaks!  He speaks through His Word to the hearts of men.  God said, "I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts." (Jeremiah 31:33).  Here's the real dissemination problem: Christians don't read His Word!  How else can we discern good from bad, positive from negative, truth from lie?  When we do not the good-positive-truth, surely the bad-negative-lies will overtake us!  Furthermore, Proverbs 29:18 says, where there’s no vision [for righteousness], we cast off restraint [perish] but "he that keepeth the law, happy is he."  God isn’t silent – His Spirit still speaks and moves among His people!  Let us not live as if we are spiritually deaf (and dumb).  Faithfully (every day), open God's Word and see God's vision for holiness, which rightly includes the reward of real-lasting happiness ... as promised.  Learn something new today – read God’s Word!