A strange thing indeed!

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I found this photo the other day, and began thinking about an odd thought. What if our Bibles could speak to us? And, if our Bibles could speak to us, would this be what it says?
This would be a strange thing for us to see on our bibles. Can you imagine if our Bible sent us a message like this each day, informing us of important truths that are going on within our lives. Obviously "Read me", would not be the words that anyone who loves God would ever want their Bibles to say, because that would say a lot about a person's spiritual condition. 

The great thing about our Bibles, is that they actually do speak to us. In fact the Bible tells us, "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO LIFE AND GODLINESS, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue" (2 Peter 1:2-3).

The Bible tells us here that because of our faith in Jesus, and our knowledge of Him, He through His divine power "has given us" knowledge about "all things that pertain to life and godliness". What this is saying is that God's Word has the answers to life, and the instructions for us to live godly in this world. The Bible may not answer every question we have in life, as some things will always remain a mystery to us, where only God Himself knows the answer (Deuteronomy 29:29). However, the Bible does speak to us about all of life's most important issues, and that is why it is so important that we put ourselves in a place to hear from God through His word. 

How do we do hear from God? We do this by reading our Bibles. Not just reading it to check off a box, or to hurry through a certain passage or chapter each day so that we can tell ourselves that we did our duty of bible reading for the day (and now our pastor will be proud of us). We read God's Word with the mindset that we want to be changed by God's Word. When we approach the Word of God with this mindset, we will be changed by what we read.

The Bible tells us in Romans 12:2; "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." The way that we renew our minds and live a transformed life is by reading the Word of God. And the blessing that comes from that is that we will then be doing what is "good and acceptable" and discovering what "the perfect will of God" is for our lives.

Let's keep living for eternity!

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