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Sometimes people think that knowing the Bible well means loving the Bible more than God.

Sometimes they charge that caring about what the Bible says means we value the knowing more than we want to do what we know.

Both possibilities exist. But neither is a reason to avoid the Bible. And we miss out on too much if we do.

Tim Stafford (coauthor with Dave Dravecky of Comeback) wrote That’s Not What I Meant! in 1995 about the power of words to heal and transform. The final chapter looks at words as God’s strategy of choice for redeeming the family he has made. Here’s an excerpt:

How does he do it? He speaks to them. Every time God wants the attention of the human race, he talks. Often they don’t listen. Sometimes a few do. Yet he sticks to words. His followers revere a book that records his words. They understand them to be words that give life.

That is the power of words. It is not just words, of course, for God ultimately gave himself. Transformation began, however, with God speaking.

So it will be with us. To transform our own hearts and the hearts of others, we must follow God’s strategy. We must hear the words of God himself speaking to us, and we must speak them to others.

We miss out when we don’t know what God has said to us in his Word . . .
when we can’t encourage those we love or point them to a better path because we don’t know what God would have us say . . .
when we can’t hear what he wants to say to us today or this week because we haven’t made time to listen.

Sometimes I struggle to read regularly. Sometimes I fail.

But then I pick up my Bible again . . .
because I miss hearing from my Father . . .
because I want to know and do his will . . .
because there are others I want to know him too . . .
because I want to prepare the next generation to be faithful.

Won’t you join me? Don’t miss out.

DIANE

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