Friendly reminder and encouragement to keep reading your bible. I want to share one thing I've seen around my neck of the woods that is really sad, that is going on among churchgoers (of course possible false converts, only God knows), and will only be corrected by individuals who seek after God and truly desire and seek to know God: it is BIBLE READING!!!
I discovered a couple years ago to my dismay, and something my mom just recently discovered is that most churchgoers barely ever read the bible except the tiny bit on the radio and church (and there are too many who are twisting Scripture for selfish reasons). My mom was involved with my brother and sister's youth group. She was allowed to talk to everyone, the leaders encourage that, and she asked "who reads their bibles? Who reads them every day?" Only my brother and sister raised their hands. She told them if they follow Jesus and are Christians, they have to learn His ways and we do that with time in the bible every day, not just at church. The next week she asked the same questions. Again, only my brother and sister raised their hands. The next week, same thing, by this time, even the leaders were smirking and giving my mom dirty looks. My mom asked them "Don't you believe reading the bible is important? What do you think?" The leaders said, "no, it's not important. church activities is good."
This is not uncommon!!! A lot of people don't care at all about reading the Bible. That just shows they don't have the desire to know Him. We must keep ourselves trained and growing in the knowledge of our Lord!
When I was a brand new Christian, I had read tracts that said we had to read the bible daily, so I thought it was common knowledge. I went around asking "Christians" "what are you reading in the bible?" I had made up my mind only to make friends with people who sought God's wisdom and who esteem His word and read it often. Well, by that criteria, I lost friends. They all told me lame reasons why they don't care about reading the bible, and some told me they NEVER intend to read it. Church is good enough. Readign just a little bit here and there is not enough. The real bad ones are the ones who think they know the bible and are "know-it-alls" but don't obey it. We don't know it all, we have to keep in the bible because we forget, Satan will even try to steal it away from us without us knowing.
We have to keep in the Word!!! Keep perservering and learning of Jesus, growing in the knowledge of our Lord!!! Read the Bible more and more!!! Ask God to give you a love of His word and then continue in it!! Force yourself if needbe!! Get tapes, movies, even cartoons of the bible if you have to, just learn and keep growing in God. So many are falling away and don't even know it because they go to church and the goats are running the whole show now. The sheep are mocked and the goats are flattering each other.
Reading the bible is not the entire Christian life, but since we are so blessed to have an abundance of bibles around, we should esteem His word and keep His words in our hearts and minds at all times. And continue to look into the Bible every day to learn more and more of His ways. There is always something else to know of Him.
It is so sad that with 10 bibles in our homes, people are so lazy that they never read them. How wicked that is.
This is one big problem, the disobedience is another problem, but READING THE BIBLE, studying it right, with His Spirit and a spirit of obedience must be done!!! How do we learn Jesus and know what He teaches unless we take the time to learn!!! Read the bible and obey it, and your whole life keeps changing and loving God more!!! We don't read it to puff ourselves up, to be know-it-alls, but to get to know God better. I continually learn new things from God through the Bible. Then we must obey.
I discovered a couple years ago to my dismay, and something my mom just recently discovered is that most churchgoers barely ever read the bible except the tiny bit on the radio and church (and there are too many who are twisting Scripture for selfish reasons). My mom was involved with my brother and sister's youth group. She was allowed to talk to everyone, the leaders encourage that, and she asked "who reads their bibles? Who reads them every day?" Only my brother and sister raised their hands. She told them if they follow Jesus and are Christians, they have to learn His ways and we do that with time in the bible every day, not just at church. The next week she asked the same questions. Again, only my brother and sister raised their hands. The next week, same thing, by this time, even the leaders were smirking and giving my mom dirty looks. My mom asked them "Don't you believe reading the bible is important? What do you think?" The leaders said, "no, it's not important. church activities is good."
This is not uncommon!!! A lot of people don't care at all about reading the Bible. That just shows they don't have the desire to know Him. We must keep ourselves trained and growing in the knowledge of our Lord!
When I was a brand new Christian, I had read tracts that said we had to read the bible daily, so I thought it was common knowledge. I went around asking "Christians" "what are you reading in the bible?" I had made up my mind only to make friends with people who sought God's wisdom and who esteem His word and read it often. Well, by that criteria, I lost friends. They all told me lame reasons why they don't care about reading the bible, and some told me they NEVER intend to read it. Church is good enough. Readign just a little bit here and there is not enough. The real bad ones are the ones who think they know the bible and are "know-it-alls" but don't obey it. We don't know it all, we have to keep in the bible because we forget, Satan will even try to steal it away from us without us knowing.
We have to keep in the Word!!! Keep perservering and learning of Jesus, growing in the knowledge of our Lord!!! Read the Bible more and more!!! Ask God to give you a love of His word and then continue in it!! Force yourself if needbe!! Get tapes, movies, even cartoons of the bible if you have to, just learn and keep growing in God. So many are falling away and don't even know it because they go to church and the goats are running the whole show now. The sheep are mocked and the goats are flattering each other.
Reading the bible is not the entire Christian life, but since we are so blessed to have an abundance of bibles around, we should esteem His word and keep His words in our hearts and minds at all times. And continue to look into the Bible every day to learn more and more of His ways. There is always something else to know of Him.
It is so sad that with 10 bibles in our homes, people are so lazy that they never read them. How wicked that is.
This is one big problem, the disobedience is another problem, but READING THE BIBLE, studying it right, with His Spirit and a spirit of obedience must be done!!! How do we learn Jesus and know what He teaches unless we take the time to learn!!! Read the bible and obey it, and your whole life keeps changing and loving God more!!! We don't read it to puff ourselves up, to be know-it-alls, but to get to know God better. I continually learn new things from God through the Bible. Then we must obey.
