The Personal Relationship to God´s Word |
Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen | |||
Mandag, 28. marts 2011 07:38 | |||
I feel ashamed whenever I happen to disturb a friend with my phone call in the morning just in the middle of his or her "quiet time", i.e. the time set aside for Bible reading and prayer. Of course I do it inadvertently, and I hasten to apologize and suggest a later phone call. There are, praise God, still Christians who can´t start the day without the Bible and prayer, but many don´t seem to take time for that.
Such brethren are worth their weight in gold. They never tried to palm off a certain "experience" or theological system on me, but encouraged me to do what the Jews in Berea did. "They searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." Acts 17:11 The Bible is never meant to be a curriculum or an "assignment" to be "covered" in such and such a time. There are times when a child of God pauses before a certain word or passage and reads it over and over again, maybe for several days, without worrying if a certain number of chapters are perused within such and such hours. I believe in reading the Bible that way. We´re not called to be "Bible machines". -jn- March 28, 2011. March 28, 2011.
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