How long does it take you to read Twilight or any other novels?
How long does it take you to read a manga or watch an anime?
How long does it take you to read all those stuff you surfed in the internet?
It’s not wrong to spend your time doing all these
But
While doing all these.. Did you spend time reading the word of God? And now it’s time for some important questions I want to ask which are:
Tada~
Do you read the bible daily? Do you love reading the bible?
Ok.. now I want you peeps to imagine that it was God who asked the two questions above. Imagine God saying, “Do you love reading My words?” “Why didn’t you read My word today?” If it was really God asking you these questions, what would your answer be? Think.. How would you answer God? Yes? or No? Well you don’t have to answer me.. Keep the answer to yourself and answer God honestly.. Many times, we tend to take the word of God for granted and neglected it. Our excuses when asked why are we not interested in reading the bible might be:
1) I’m busy! School work is piling up!
2) It’s too deep, I don’t understand what I’m reading!
3) It’s boring.. It puts me to sleep!
4) It doesn’t apply to today’s context!
Yes, it is difficult to understand the bible and trying to find time to read it is dreadful when we can do something else but we know very well that spending time reading the bible is the right thing to do as we have heard much about it from our pastors and leaders. Many times, we may have thoughts such as we want to know God more, we want to hear from God and we want to draw closer to Him. How are we going to be close to God if we can’t even spend like few minutes reading His words?
Getting to know a person, takes time. You need to spend quality time with a person in order to understand a person. If you can spend your time understanding your friends, games, books and etc.. Why not God? Doesn’t He who is our Father in Heaven deserves our time more than anything else?
Therefore, let us learn to do what is right and pleasing to God by making the effort to read His words everyday! It’s not easy.. I know.. really lols! Cause I’m trying too! It requires much determination and disciplines! Lets learn to love His words and spend time to understand God! All because He deserves it!
I would like to end this post with a scripture taken from 2 Timothy 3:16-17 just to remind us about the importance of the word of God to us as Christians:
“Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.”
by: Yu Li
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