"Your words were found, and I ate them, and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts."
Jeremiah 15:16 (NKJV)
What if you needed some tool for your work or home and you did not know where to find it? What if someone then told you where to find the tool and the address of the store it was sold in? Then imagine you go to the store, but you never go inside, even though the store is open. You might think the store looks nice, and even talk to other people about how much you need the tool, but if you never go inside the store to actually buy the tool, you will never have the thing that you need.
We live in such a wonderful time, with God's Word being so easily available to us. Personally, I have numerous Bibles, in different translations, I have a Bible program in my computer, and I have Bible apps in my phone. But, while all these things are wonderful, I still have to open the Bible itself, or the Bible program or app, to actually see what is inside of the Bible and to learn the things I need to live the kind of life that will please God, and that will help me fulfill God's will for my life.
Over the years, as I have been teaching in Bible schools and churches in Europe and the USA, time and time again I meet believers who do not even know basic Bible truths. Christians often do not really know what God did for them through Jesus, who they are in Christ, and they do not understand how to do what God wants them to do, and all the while they have a book that shows them these things. We need to open the book, the Bible, spend time reading and studying it, and then apply it to our life, and it all starts with opening the book.
Jeremiah 15:16 (NKJV)
What if you needed some tool for your work or home and you did not know where to find it? What if someone then told you where to find the tool and the address of the store it was sold in? Then imagine you go to the store, but you never go inside, even though the store is open. You might think the store looks nice, and even talk to other people about how much you need the tool, but if you never go inside the store to actually buy the tool, you will never have the thing that you need.
We live in such a wonderful time, with God's Word being so easily available to us. Personally, I have numerous Bibles, in different translations, I have a Bible program in my computer, and I have Bible apps in my phone. But, while all these things are wonderful, I still have to open the Bible itself, or the Bible program or app, to actually see what is inside of the Bible and to learn the things I need to live the kind of life that will please God, and that will help me fulfill God's will for my life.
Over the years, as I have been teaching in Bible schools and churches in Europe and the USA, time and time again I meet believers who do not even know basic Bible truths. Christians often do not really know what God did for them through Jesus, who they are in Christ, and they do not understand how to do what God wants them to do, and all the while they have a book that shows them these things. We need to open the book, the Bible, spend time reading and studying it, and then apply it to our life, and it all starts with opening the book.
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