Tuesday, January 23, 2018

An Open Book


“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”

Ephesians 1:17





How do you read the bible?

Is it to gain more facts and figures so that you are really good at trivia?

Is it in order to have something to add at a mid-week bible study?

When you go to your bible with the intention of learning something new about God, something that makes you more in love with Him, then you make your reading profitable and meaningful.

Open the pages to find God.

As you read, listen to the Holy Spirit as He reveals the Lord through what you read.

Too often we open God’s love letter to man for all the wrong reasons.

We go in looking for ammunition to shoot someone down.

We open the pages hoping to strengthen OUR opinion.

We enter searching for Sunday’s message forgetting completely about the Father’s heart eager to meet us there.

Instead, try entering with the intention of growing more in love with the author.

Put aside the agendas and the other reasons.

There are a thousand and one reasons but none compares to finding the Father in the pages.


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