This is part one of a whole lot of parts.
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I’m counting them in my head right now – I think there’s seven in this room with me, one or two in the bedroom, one or two downstairs and several more in a giveaway box by the back door. I’m probably forgetting some.
Bibles. Different translations, several study versions, small ones that fit in a pocket or computer bag, some other old ones kept because notes jotted in them are a little journal of our personal growth – a typical serious Christian collection. Oh, I forgot the one on my laptop.
God’s Word. Scripture (the first time I heard someone say that it sounded so reverent). The Sword of the Lord. The Old and New Testaments. But one thing all the versions and sizes and ages have in common – they do not speak unless you pick them up (or click) and read them. And even then you have to understand what you’re reading and believe it before you hear what it’s saying. Until then, they all sit there, doing nothing.
Well, the books, the pages, do nothing. The truth inside them of course is always doing something; you read the Book and find the truth and learn what it’s doing. But it’s not doing it in the pages. It’s doing it where we live – in the whole world. The truth in the Book says, “the whole world is filled with His glory” but you have to lift your eyes from the Book to see it.
When you do lift your eyes you see a show. And like with the Book you have to open your eyes and understand what you’re seeing and believe it. But it’s there, all around you, all over the world, and you’re always – always – in the middle of it. But like many things you’ve grown up with and still live in the middle of, you don’t really see it. I don’t. But I’m starting to. Aren’t there some things that when you finally see them you’re shocked, thrilled, can’t believe you missed it until now, and your life is never the same?
Hello! My name is Clay Simpson and I just want to let you guys know at Life 91.9 that through the music you play and by my peers. I have become full hearted in my faith in Jesus Christ. Thanks so much and let the music keep playing!
Posted by: James Clayton Simpson | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 11:12 PM