Wise like Jesus — Directors Cut — The next step

This past week at MCChurch we grap­pled with the idea of being spir­i­tual peo­ple.  The path­way to spir­i­tu­al­ity begins with our spend­ing time with God in His word.  Who­ever you are, wher­ever you are I chal­lenge you to humbly place your­self in His word and receive the things His word teaches you.  Wres­tle with it, pray over it, dis­agree with it, argue with it, thank him for it, repent because of it.  As we lis­ten and respond we know God more.

As you embark on this jour­ney go out and buy a new Bible.  Just the other day I had a good friend pick me up a Bible from her book store.  I for­got the fun, and won­der of own­ing a new unmarked Bible.  I opened it for the first time last night with the antic­i­pa­tion of all the things God has to say to me, and how this book will walk with me through this jour­ney.  Some­times it is good to mix things up.  To go out and mark the jour­ney with a mile­stone that  marks some­thing new, the next step, or next leg of the jour­ney.  For a long time I have stud­ied out of two other Bibles one was my Dad’s from when I was a kid, and the other I received as a gift from my par­ents as a stu­dent.  Both are well marked we have jour­neyed a long way together.  They are tes­ta­ment to the lessons learned and the things taught to me by God.  And now I have a new Bible to walk this next leg of the jour­ney with me together.  To show me new insights as God’s Holy Spirit works in me to uncover the words He has for me to shape me into His likeness.

I know it’s cool these days to have your e-​​bible, you­ver­sion thing on your ipod, iphone, crack­berry, and soon to be ipad.  But there is some­thing spe­cial about the mate­ri­al­ity of a book, a new Bible wait­ing to be opened, to be read, to be high­lighted and under­lined.  To be marked up with thoughts, and dog eared to be remembered.

Regard­less of how you do it, do it, get in to it, to use a scrip­tural metaphor drink deep, feast.  As you do, you will be changed.  Guaranteed

“Stay thirsty my friends”