Luke
8:1-18
Oh , I so want to make sure that my ears are hearing
and the Word is being planted in good ground!
I can honestly say with each day that passes I love the Word of God more
and more. Last night it was late and I
was extremely tired when I got home, but I just felt I had to read the next
scriptures even if I didn’t have time to blog my thoughts on them. It wasn’t that I felt like I needed to do it
out of obligation, but I really wanted to read them and just didn’t think I
could go to sleep until I had done so.
So I did and then I woke up wanting to read them again---what an awesome
feeling. I am so blessed and very
thankful that God has given me this thirst for His Word, especially when I hear
people say that they wish they liked to read the Bible. I know that sounds terrible, but I think
people may not enjoy it because they don’t understand it, and I can completely
understand because there is still so many things that I don’t fully comprehend,
but I just have to read it for what it is and pray that God opens my mind to
what he wants me to know. I find it hard
to read fictional material, I just always want to get something out of what I
read---I want to grow with everything that I read, so maybe that is why I love
the stories of the Bible so much. No
matter why I love them, I am just glad I do, but there is definitely something
else that I need to work on and that is spreading His Word and applying it in
every aspect of my life. So many times I
don’t seek him in everything, just the stuff that I think is big, but that is
not correct, I have to seek him in everything, big or small. You know the scripture says “whoever has ears
to hear, let them hear”---I think that He is talking to me when he speaks these
words, no I know he is! I have also
learned from scripture that it does not matter how well you know the words of
the Bible, if they are not applied to your life than they are useless to your
soul. This book was not written just
for us to enjoy the stories and the “parts we like”, it was written in order
for its words to guide our lives. Hebrews
4:12 says it perfectly…
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any
double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and
marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Wow, that scripture has to
be one of the most powerful scriptures describing the Word of our
Lord----really makes me know how truly important the Word is to my life! I just love that the scriptures that follow The
Parable of the Sower is about letting our light shine and the words ‘be careful
how you listen’ hit me hard. How many
books do you read and think about listening as you read? None, when we teach children to read and
comprehend we tell them that they need to clear their thoughts and concentrate
on the text they are reading, but not the Bible. Why---because it is the only book that is ‘alive
and active’---it is this way because God speaks to us through the reading and
pondering on His Word. I have read some
scriptures my whole life, but the true meaning does not come to me until that
is what I need to see and hear. I just
can’t help but think of how good God is to each of us, He is not only our
Savior, Friend, Father, Guide, but he left us His Word in order for us to know
Him more----What a Savior!
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