Take it in AND Live it out

The Bible.

What is it? A book some guy wrote thousands of years ago? A good story? A book just like any other?

The Bible is none of those things. The Bible is in a league of its own. No other book could ever be like it. The Bible isn't one of many great books. It is the ONE AND ONLY great book. A Professor M. Montiero-Williams said, "Pile them [the great Eastern books], if you will, on the left side of your study table; but place your own Holy Bible on the right side--all by itself, all alone--and with a wide gap between them. For...there is a gulf between it and the other so-called sacred books of the East which wevers the one from the other utterly, hopelessly, forever...a veritable gulf which cannot be bridged." This book was breathed by God. It was written on three different continents by more than forty men from every walk of life. It was written like this in a world without email, telephones, or postcards. The Bible is the cohesive story of God's working to save humankind. And the best part is that God is using this book, HIS book, to work in us.

BUT how can the Bible help us if we aren't in it? We have to actively be reading the Bible. We have to be searching for it's truths. And once we get into the Bible, we have yet another task. We have to SPREAD the Bible to others. We have to live as the Bible tells us to live, so that we can be walking testamonies for God. We benefit most from the Bible when we experience it by allowing it to impact our thoughts, words, and actions.

James 1:19-25 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, andnot hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

God wants us to be hearers of the word, AND doers of the word. He wants us to Take It In and Live It Out. What good is having the knowledge of our Lord and Savior if we keep it to ourselves? Jesus came to this Earth to spread the gospel and He wants us to do the same. I challenge you to get into your Bible, AND to live a Godly life based in the things that you read in that Bible.

God Bless,
Taylor