Pete in MI
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A dearly loved Sister in Christ who recently celebrated her 100th birthday was talking to her granddaughter (Sherry) and was telling Sherry of a well meaning church member who had seen the condition of the Bible the 100 year old had so bought her a new Bible.
Nana, the 100 year old Sister, was holding her Bible together with rubber bands and Scotch tape. It is well worn with years of daily use - not years of sitting on a shelf. Nana is the prayer warrior who prays for so many of her relatives and so many others that she is truly a blessing to so many - and many who will never know she prayed for them.
She is no doubt in my mind one of the children of God who when she goes home God will say to her (Mt 25:21} "Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."
Though Nana is weak in body, she is losing weight and her eyesight is failing her mind is sharp as a tack. Nana told Sherry that though she appreciated the gift of the new Bible - it isn't 'her Bible'. Nana said "with my Bible I may not be able to see but one word on the page, because my vision is failing, I know what that one word is all about because I know my Bible." Though her Bible is falling apart and has to be held together with rubber bands and tape, that Bible means more to her than we can understand.
Can we say that our Bibles mean as much to us? Is the Bible something that comes out only on Sunday - goes to church then comes home to be tossed on a counter until next Sunday? Do we look at the Bible once a day for a daily verse? It has been estimated the on average Christians own 9 Bibles. How many do you have? I know I have about 10 if one figures in the various translations and the electronic Bibles I have on the computer.
What is 'my favorite Bible'? Yours, if you have more than one?
I guess what I am getting at is that if we divide our time and study to a bunch of others Bible, how will we have one that is ours and only ours? One that we KNOW just as Nana knows hers?
A military strategy is to 'divide and conquer'. If you can divide the enemy into smaller groups - divide them - separate them - it is easier to conquer each small group than to fight a unified force.
Using that same strategy is it not possible Satan used the same strategy to divide Brother from Brother by internal strife in our churches? The same strategy by dividing family members from each other in various ways. And even use that strategy to divide our knowledge of God's Word by bouncing us from translation to translation.
Let us pray for Nana. Let us pray that each of us will come to KNOW God's Word and hide it in our hearts like Nana has the Word deep in her heart. Let us pray we will be aware of separation from each other and from God because of the war strategy of Satan. Let us continue to pray for each other. I pray for these things in Jesus precious name. Amen.
Nana, the 100 year old Sister, was holding her Bible together with rubber bands and Scotch tape. It is well worn with years of daily use - not years of sitting on a shelf. Nana is the prayer warrior who prays for so many of her relatives and so many others that she is truly a blessing to so many - and many who will never know she prayed for them.
She is no doubt in my mind one of the children of God who when she goes home God will say to her (Mt 25:21} "Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."
Though Nana is weak in body, she is losing weight and her eyesight is failing her mind is sharp as a tack. Nana told Sherry that though she appreciated the gift of the new Bible - it isn't 'her Bible'. Nana said "with my Bible I may not be able to see but one word on the page, because my vision is failing, I know what that one word is all about because I know my Bible." Though her Bible is falling apart and has to be held together with rubber bands and tape, that Bible means more to her than we can understand.
Can we say that our Bibles mean as much to us? Is the Bible something that comes out only on Sunday - goes to church then comes home to be tossed on a counter until next Sunday? Do we look at the Bible once a day for a daily verse? It has been estimated the on average Christians own 9 Bibles. How many do you have? I know I have about 10 if one figures in the various translations and the electronic Bibles I have on the computer.
What is 'my favorite Bible'? Yours, if you have more than one?
I guess what I am getting at is that if we divide our time and study to a bunch of others Bible, how will we have one that is ours and only ours? One that we KNOW just as Nana knows hers?
A military strategy is to 'divide and conquer'. If you can divide the enemy into smaller groups - divide them - separate them - it is easier to conquer each small group than to fight a unified force.
Using that same strategy is it not possible Satan used the same strategy to divide Brother from Brother by internal strife in our churches? The same strategy by dividing family members from each other in various ways. And even use that strategy to divide our knowledge of God's Word by bouncing us from translation to translation.
Let us pray for Nana. Let us pray that each of us will come to KNOW God's Word and hide it in our hearts like Nana has the Word deep in her heart. Let us pray we will be aware of separation from each other and from God because of the war strategy of Satan. Let us continue to pray for each other. I pray for these things in Jesus precious name. Amen.