Have you ever wondered why so many people heed warnings over the slightest risks? It seems like a few people can get sick because they use a certain product and everybody goes into a panic. Do you remember the peanut butter scare? People began to get sick after eating Peter Pan and the Wal-Mart brand of peanut butter so they pulled them off the shelf. We have seen Toyota go through the ringer over the gas pedal sticking and apparently Children’s Tylenol is never coming back. Seriously, I have not seen it on the shelf in a long time. Now I am not making light of the illness and even deaths that created these recalls, but why is it we take heed to these warnings that probably will have no impact on us while at the same time we ignore God’s word? Ten out of ten people I know are going to die. The Bible is filled with warnings for those who die apart from him, but so many don’t pay any attention to the warnings. You know what I think is sad? Is the fact that not only do we ignore his warnings we don’t love his word.
Recently my lovely wife saw an intruder in our house. She was terrified! I mean she screamed and come running through the house and I could see the panic in her eyes. Of course I was then expected to attack and kill this vile beast who found our home as a temptation to dwell in and call his own domain. When I asked her what was wrong she sad “I SAW A RAT”! Well it was nearly midnight and I was very tired and I have no traps or poison because we have never seen any rodents in the house. Sometimes you just have to be the man of the house and tell your wife you are not going to jump at their every request especially 12 o’clock at night! So here I am at Wal-Mart at midnight buying every trap and rodent killing mechanism they have. Needless to say a few days go by and all traps are clear. Then one day she opens up the junk closet (oh don’t act like you don’t have a junk closet) and she smells something dead. You probably know the next seen. So here I am cleaning out the junk closet and I pull every item out. I just knew I would find this rat that she described as approximately 5 inches laying in the back corner. Oh no, couldn’t be that easy. Instead after going through every box and container I find it in the very last bag to go. By the way it was a mouse about 2 inches counting the tail.
Now that was the funny part of my story but here is the reality of the story. After I disinfected the closet I began to go through my junk closet and throw things away. Guess what I found in my junk closet? A Bible? Not a Bible but instead several Bibles. You know God has overly blessed me. He has given me so much that I am at a point in my life that I can store Bibles in a closet of junk. I told my wife we have more Bibles than anybody I know. Did you know that the Jews kiss the Torah (Old Testament) if it gets knocked to the ground? There are 450 people murdered everyday for preaching the Bible. There are thousands of people in the world everyday who read their Bible in secret to keep from being killed, and I have his word in a closet of junk.
We need to quit storing God’s word away and start reading his word. I believe we too often have lost a love for his word in the Junk of this world. I hope that in this New Year God brings you a joy of service for him. I hope you fall in love with his word and you share his word with others. Remember his word will not return void (Isaiah 55:11). May we not hide his word but instead display it for the entire world to hear!
Jesus Saves,
RR
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