Lord's Day Post

                I made a New Year resolution on January 1, 2020....that I would read God's Word every day. Now I'm sure that I break a lot of promises....and fail God all the time....but there is something about telling God that as a vow....I was going to read His Word every day. There has been some challenges.....even recently....after driving for about ten hours....and then finally pulling into a motel.....and just wanting to collapse on the bed....but I let my wife go to sleep as I put the lowest light on in the room.....and opened God's Word.
               I don't think of it as a vow anymore....as it's more like taking in food and water....or a pill that keeps the hearts pumping....or oxygen. I lifted my eyes and am looking at it now across the room....a $2.95 paperback edition of the Living New Testament that I bought at a National Record Mart back in 1972....before getting on the bus while attending Pitt on the G. I. Bill. I know that I didn't read much of it at all....but in the ten years after that I could never throw it away....and today....I keep it handy....just to look at.....and occasionally to pick up....open it....close my eyes....and place the open pages up to my nose....and the smell of the paper reminds me of that day when I first had a taste of the joy and awe in the name of Jesus....maybe I purposely imagine it....either way....I thank God that he watched over me....that I would not perish before I was regenerated ten years later...and born a second time....from above.....and adopted into God's family.
               I'd like to leave you with this question. If the Bible is God's Word to Us.....as all of us Christians claim to believe....then rationally speaking....how is it that we would not devour it every day? Bear with me on this....it is supposedly God's direct words to us....and if we truly believe that....how on God's green earth....would we not want to read His words to us at least every day? It would appear that we either do not really....really believe that it is His actual direct words to us.....or.....maybe we do not think that we need any guidance or direction or warnings.....or maybe we think that we already have all the knowledge that there is to have? In my own case…for so many years I surely proclaimed that this was God’s very Word to us….but I did not think this through….and once again I thank and praise Him for His patience on one so undeserving!