I love the Word of God. I just can’t help myself! I open the pages and He speaks to me, the Wind of the Spirit breathing through ink and paper.
All I know of my holy God, His beauty and His character, is revealed in the Word penned by prophets and apostles who have long been standing in His Presence. Yet when I open it for myself, there He is, waiting to pull aside the veil and reveal Himself to me. He tells me of His wonderful ways and workings. He blows on the Red Sea and shakes Sinai with His mighty Presence and invites me to watch in awe as He does it.
It is through the Word that He reveals to me His mercy and the value He places on us. I watch in wonder as He longs for us so much that God the Son, God the Word, leaves angel choirs and golden streets, wraps Himself in humanity, and lies in a manger. I see Him demonstrate His kindness as He touches lepers and speaks life into tombs.
But there is one page that cuts my heart. I turn to it and weep as He reveals the heart that propelled Him to the agony of the cross – love, pure and untainted, unconditional and unrestrained. It is love that lets wicked men spit in His holy face and place thorns on His brow. It is love that takes nails through feet and hands rather than live in eternal glory without us, without me. I don’t deserve that kind of love, but I open the Word and find it was given freely to me while I was still polluted in sin.
Child of God, it is so easy to get caught up in the busyness of life that we neglect the Word. Our jobs have to be worked and our kids have events to attend. We can even get caught up in the busyness of churchy things. None of these things are wrong or bad, but they can still draw us away from time spent in the Bible. And if we don’t invest in the Word of God, we will never truly know the God of the Word.
Can I encourage you tonight to pick up the Book again? He will come and fellowship with you over it and through it. He will teach you how to live, how to give, how to serve, how to worship rightly through His Word. Read it, eat it, meditate on it. We don’t really have anything to offer anyone until we do.
Pray with me?
Father, we do not want to be too busy to spend time with You, or to share Your love with others. We do not want to offer people emotionalism and empty rhetoric. We want to offer them the real You, but we cannot truly find You apart from your Word. Anoint us with hunger for Your Word again.
