The Living Word

What a week! Patients is the key this week. Over all, I really can't complain, by God's grace, its been a pretty good week. Lately I have been reading and listening to many different sermons. From the regular ones of Joyce Meyers, Josh Harris, to new ones like John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Charles Spurgeon, and the likes. I have learned so much from hearing and reading different view points. So many talents pastors and leaders out there, I just love it!
I was listening to one sermon and the pastor was talking about how by the voice of God creation started, the world began, birds were created, and life was born. God's voice is so powerful, and at that moment I realized how amazing His voice is. How amazing that God spoke and it came to be. To really meditate on that is almost too much to take. I also realized another thing at that point. The Bible is also God's spoken word, and how absolutely powerful the Bible is.
Lately I have been drawn to reading my Bible more, and not just reading it but to really learn, meditate, and pray over everything I have read. I read Matthew chapters 1-10 every day this week. I believe it was John MacArthur that spoke about doing the same thing, and it inspired me. I used to read through books of the bible and continue on to the next one. However, if you think about it, if you start at Matthew 1, when will you hit Matthew 1 again. Its going to take a long time to work through the entire New Testament and then you will probably move to an Old Testament book, and then go back to Matthew 1. So most likely after all is considered, you will read Matthew 1 about once a year. So I decided, (because I am trying to memorize more versus anyways) to read Matthew 1-10 for a week (so that is seven times). Then move on to 11-20 every day, and so on and so forth. I must say I know Matthew 1 through 10 pretty good by now. I do not know it verbatim, but I know it more than I did before.
Oh to pull out scripture every time we are tempted or tried!!!! How amazing that would be. Instead of immediately thinking of some carnal response when we are mad, sad, angry or everything in between, how wonderful it would be to speak the living Word of God. Some times that happens. Especially the lines we learned in children's church. Remember this one... "turn the other cheek" ? But how powerful as Christians we could be if we dedicated more time in the Word and less time on Facebook, or in reality t.v. Instead of quoting a line from last nights MTV show, why not quote a line from God's Word, the only thing that will help us all of our lives.
When we become Christian we can not pick and chose what we will do. We are either going to follow to our fullest, or we will not. We are either going to cultivate those righteous seeds that were planted in us, or we are going to let them die off. Its our chose
How wonderful God's Word is. You know I can listen to sermons and read articles by Godly theologians all day long, but it will never get me where I need to go. It will lead me some, but definitely not all the way without God's Word. See the key to this is that the reason they are able to produce such inspiring works and sermons is because they did the work. They read the Bible and searched, learned and spent hours meditating in it. So they are giving the audiences the over flow of their knowledge, and what a blessing that is. But I don't just want the overflows. I want to experience that myself. The only way to do that is to dig deep, and read the Word.
The more and more I read, the more I realize how just absolutely POWERFUL it is. How INSPIRATIONAL it is. I can't live without it. So in return it changes my heart, my actions, and desires.
Again I will ask the question, how different would this place be if we all studied the Word, and realized how powerful it is? Living in a society that is so power hungry, I am not surprised by the situation modern day society is in now, because most are missing the most powerful tool, the living Word of God.
God Bless You