Signs you are not reading your bible enough.

Thought for the day

Someone has composed the following "Top Ten" list of signs you may not
be reading your Bible enough:

10) The Preacher announces the sermon is from Galatians..... and you
check the table of contents.
9) You think Abraham, Isaac & Jacob may have had a few hit songs
during the 60's.
8) You open to the Gospel of Luke and a WWII savings bond falls
out.
7) Your favorite Old Testament patriarch is Hercules.
6) Your favorite Bible verse is "Cleanliness is next to
godliness."
5) You become frustrated because Charlton Heston isn't listed in
either the concordance or the table of contents.
4) Catching the kids reading the Song of Solomon, you demand:
"Who gave you this stuff?"
3) You think the Minor Prophets worked in the quarries.
2) You keep falling for it every time when the preacher tells you
to turn to First Condominiums.

And the number one sign you may not be reading your Bible enough:

1) The kids keep asking too many questions about your usual bedtime
story: "Jonah the Shepherd Boy and His Ark of Many Colors."

It's hard to over-estimate the importance of reading and studying the
Bible. God's Word is our source of spiritual nourishment, our light
in the midst of a dark world, our mirror to see what needs to be
corrected in our lives. And yet, it is so easy to let other things
get in the way and interrupt time we have wanted to dedicate to Bible
reading.

"Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day." (Psa. 119:97).

Have you read your Bible today?

Verses

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and start living for what is right. And we are healed because of his wounds.

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

3 John 2

Dear friend, I pray that all your interests may prosper and that you may have good health, in the same way that your soul is prospering.

Prayer

Father, we want to trust You at all times – in the good times and in troubled times. Thank You for Your promise that You will not let us drown when we pass through the deep waters. We will not be burned nor will the flames hurt us when we walk through the raging fires that seek to engulf us. We don’t have to be afraid because You have saved us and called us by name. You are truly our Refuge and we pour out our hearts out to You for all that we have need of. May our faith increase and our devotion deepen as we lean hard on You. Amen.