What do you live by?

About 12 months ago my wife and I were 'church shopping'. We had just recently moved countries (intercontinental flights each weekend being a bit much for a Sunday commute), and were looking for our new home, where we would be in fellowship with other Christians and hear the Word of God.

In one church we visited, we saw many people there we knew. The kids had a great time at kids church. The second week we were there the pastor was preaching on how to live a better life, and quoted primarily from a book by Rick Warren.

What?

Needless to say, we didn't return.

This post is not here to pick on other sources that we may use from time to time. There are many good books out there, and also documents like creeds, confessions and catechisms that can help guide us in our knowledge and understanding of God. But none of this replaces the Word.

God has revealed Himself to us in two primary ways. We have general revelation, that being the creation all around us (Romans 1:20). And we have specific revelation, which is the Word of God, otherwise known as the Bible.

If you take the scripture above from Matthew, we are called to live by 'every word that comes from the mouth of God'. How can we do that? By reading those exact words, God's inspired words, the Bible. The Bible is our one single source of God's words into our lives.

And we are called to live by it.

What do you live by?

I encourage you, read your Bible. Every day. More than once a day.

Are you looking for tips to make your life better? Do you want to know how to be healthy, wealthy and wise? Then read your Bible, every day. You will come to understand God's plan for your life, God's wisdom, and God's plan for eternal blessing and salvation.

Prayer

Lord God, thank you for your Word. Thank you for guiding your servants to record the things you have done and said, that we can still read them, and through them and your Spirit, be reconciled to You. Give us a passion for Your Word, that we cannot go a day without reading it. Give us a hunger for Your Word that we yearn to look into it more, and through it, know You. In Jesus Name. Amen.

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