The Bible

Today I had a thought that hit me very hard. I had walked past a pile of books in our living room and I saw out of the corner of my eye our Bible and the thought that I had was, "Treasure this."

It wasn't a positive message said with a happy heart. It was more of a daunting message; an urgent and cautious message.

We so take for granted that book.

If you put all of the Bibles in our house in a pile, it would probably stand 2 feet high--but not because we are Bible fanatics or super-Bible readers, but because when I find them in nice condition at thrift stores and rummage sales and they are incredibly cheap, I purchase them to give to others-and yes, I have.

The children and I often read an incredible devotional called, "Extreme Devotion" by Voice of the Martyrs. The little segment that we usually read at lunch time doesn't take us longer than 5 minutes to read, and the discussion is priceless. It gives story after story of people dying for their Christian faith in devotion to Christ. It doesn't paint a pretty picture, but it does make you realize how serious we should be taking our faith.

Our Bibles sit on our bed-stands waiting to tell us His truth (not ours). Our Bibles wait on our coffee tables wanting to show us what God is REALLY saying (not what WE want it to say). And we sit in our arm-chairs clicking through the myriad of shows that we numbly fill our brains with and we forget the wealth that we have just sitting so close to us.

People say that we can change what the Bible says, we can't.
People say that the Bible doesn't relate to what our lives are like now, it does.

I read the news, I hear what people are saying... BUT

"...as for me and MY house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15

~B