God’s Word

 

Read anything good in God’s word, lately?

The other week, Ross touched on our need to study the word and to every day spend quality time with our heavenly Father. He suggested that, if not in the habit, then even a few minutes a day was a good start.

I read of a family that had no less than thirty-three Bibles scattered throughout the house and car, including Bibles won as prizes, Family Bibles, Bibles on tape, and even a Gideon’s Bible filched from a motel. The thing is, they weren’t reading any of these Bibles. They thought that keeping them might somehow make them holy, through association, as if they could somehow absorb the scripture through osmosis or something similar. It didn’t work.

Deuteronomy 30:14 says, “But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.”

One man who lived that scripture was an American airman, kept captive in Hanoi’s notorious ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prisoner of war camp, during the Vietnam war. Despite frequent beatings, poor food, and months in solitary confinement, he kept his hope alive, through repeating the few scriptures he had memorized as a child, and by sharing them with his cell mates.

When I frequently struggled as a new Christian, I took hope from Psalm 119 verses 9 and 11; “How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to your word… Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”

I am determined to read God’s word, every day, and to seek His face, so that this servant of God “may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:17)

 

Contributed by Clem Wigmore