Fourteen and Fifteen kind of go hand-in-hand…
Gods Word and The Ability To Learn And Grow.
I think it is ridiculous the amount of times
that I take having a bible for granted.
I mean come on…this is THE WORD OF GOD!!!
How many times do I sit there while I am
praying and just say: “If I could only hear Your voice…”
DUH! DUMMY!!! That is what the Bible is for.
Yeah…it’s not his literal voice…but it is
still His plan for my life woven in a beautiful love letter…
An instruction manual.
A manual on how to live a Christ-like life.
You know when you get a new board game or a
project and it comes with instructions on how to play it or assemble it? And
there are always those people who just love to jump on in and figure it out
themselves? And then there are those other people who have to get out the
manual and read every instruction word for word so they know exactly how to
play…because heaven forbid the game is not played EXACTLY how it is meant to
be???
I’m going to be honest with you guys…I am
totally that person. The annoying “play by the rule book WORD for WORD” kind of
person…and yes…I will continue to refer to the manual throughout the game just
to be certain that if I am losing…I am losing fairly…haha because chances are I
am losing and I will fight everyone on it if I don’t have the exact rules there
to refer to…so in other words…everyone is just better off not playing games
with me…
But getting back on track…this is a good
thing right? That I consider the instructions to be such a crucial part in the
actual process…
So why do I seem to forget so often to refer
to the Bible when I need to know how to live?
I just think it is incredible how much
information God has given us in the bible. And how many stories there are for
us to turn to and learn from…
And they aren’t just stories about random
people…they are stories about our ancestors! Forget ancestry.com…this is our
incredibly detailed family tree people! Some of it is somewhat embarrassing for
us to claim as relative I’m sure…but other stuff…is pretty dang incredible.
It is crazy to me how many people I talk to
that want to “live right” and do the “right thing” and be better…and yet…they
seem to try to rely solely on their own personal ability to do so…or they read
inspirational books and take the words of a mentor as foundational truth…yet
they don’t bother to crack open the Ultimate
Truth every once and awhile.
How can I grow and live right and gain
knowledge if I don’t actually KNOW how to do these things?
How can I be Christ-like if I don’t even know
what Christ is like?
How can I love my neighbor and myself if I
don’t even know what love IS or HOW to do it?
How can I grow spiritually if I don’t know
what being “spiritual” entails and looks like?
I can’t!
But thankfully…God has made it possible for
me to do all of this…I just have to read His instructions…
We haven’t been left stranded and alone to
fend for ourselves!
He has given us the knowledge we need and the ability to
learn and to grow.
