It’s a snow day – a surprise day of sleeping in, watching TV, playing video games, and eating junk food. Enjoy your day off by taking it easy, reducing your stress level, and… reading your Bible?!
For most of us, the last thing we want to do on our day off from school is read a book, but the Bible is com
pletely different than your algebra or chemistry book! Hebrews 4:12 says “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (ESV) Did you catch that? The Bible is alive! No, it doesn’t have eyebrows and fingernails like you and I, but it is the living Word of God. God designed it to teach His people and build up His Church. Each time we read it, God reveals new things to us. The words may be the same, but God uses them to speak to us differently as we pass through different stages in our lives.
Just this morning in my morning “quiet time,” I was reading one of my favorite passages in all the Bible – John 3 and 4. The foundational truths in these two chapters have made a profound impact on my life as a Christian and as a teacher. But, today as I read, God showed me things about these verses that I had never seen before. He spoke to me about my duty as a Christian to minister to those unlike myself and the importance of teaching with the message “Ye must be born again” at the forefront of my thoughts.
I encourage you today to pick up your Bible (or surf over to www.esv.org ) and read a portion of God’s “living word.” Perhaps you could read John 3 and 4 like I did this morning or pick one of your favorite passages and open your mind to receive the new message God will place there.
I leave you today with the words of the hymn, “The Word of God Is Alive.” (copyright 1991 Van Ness Press, Inc.)
The Word of God is alive, It lives in the world today;
Correcting, consoling, connecting making, the Word of God is alive.The Word of God is a lamp, It shines through the darkest night;
Perceiving, perfecting, protecting our walk, the Word of God is a lamp.The Word of God is inspired, It speaks to our deepest needs;
Dividing, directing, declaring His truth, the Word of God is inspired.text by L.W. Terley
Have a great snow day!
-Daniel Wesley
