The Bible - and YOU!

From our study in the Exodus, we have seen how important God considered the people's following ONLY Him.  After the incident with the Calf, God gave them the Covenant and once again wrote the Laws of the covenant for them (as Moses had broken the tables the first time) - Ex.34. It was so important that they have God's word in them, that he stated to the generation that would go into the Promised Land "And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.  You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Dt 6:6-9"  God knew that when they came into the land, that there would be a King that they would desire, other than Him.  He gave instruction for that King, "And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them.Dt.17:19  "

Billions of us have access to God's Word these days, and yet in spite of this, many believers are more faithful to reading their daily newspaper or email than their Bibles. It seems strange that we cannot seem find three minutes just to read the Bible, yet they will find 20 or 30 minutes to play an online game, or peruse the Internet.

It’s no wonder why we don’t grow personally in spiritual fruit and in development of our gifts.  Many who claim to believe the Bible “from cover to cover” have never read it from cover to cover.  Did you know that if you cut out one 30-minute television program a day and read your Bible instead, you will read through the entire Bible twice a year.Reading God's word keeps us in tune to God's voice and God's working in our lives.  This is why He was so insistent for the people to always keep it before them, and for the King to always have it by his side.  

But don’t just keep it near you; read it regularly! A simple tool that is helpful for this is a daily Bible reading plan. It will prevent you from just skipping around the Bible arbitrarily and overlooking sections.

Here are a few questions for you to consider:

• How do you think 15 minutes a day in God’s Word would change the way you approach your everyday life?
• Being in God's presence, changed the physical countenance of Moses. What do you think being in God's presence with His Word daily would do to your countenance?
• Is God's word a topic of conversation in our homes? Do we keep it before us as we walk through the day?
• Do we put reminders around our houses, on our calendars, mirrors, etc. like we do with other things, to remind ourselves of what God says - to keep it?
• If not any of the above - why not?