The WORD

This is a true conversation that me and my mother had about a month ago while I was down on my life:

Me: *sigh*

Mom: Have you been reading your Bible?

Me: (with a guilty look on my face) No....

Mom: Why not?

Me: I don't know...

And I can tell you that ever since that moment my life and my perspective has changed 1000000 percent.

First off I would love to thank my mom for putting this perspective on me and holding me accountable on reading my Bible.  But the thing is, about a month ago I was downright depressed.  I was putting in a gagillion applications with no calls-backs, write-backs, e-mail backs...NOTHING. And my mom sensed my despair and found an interesting correlation  previous to that funk I was in, I was reading the Bible and then all of a sudden...WHAM the funk came and for some stupid reason, I couldn't figure out why it came.

And then it hit me!  I was missing my weapon.  I would say that I had on my breastplate  grieves, helmet and all the rest of my armor (Ephesians 6:11), but I didn't have my weapon.  Or should I say, I wasn't using my weapon.  What sense does to make to have the greatest weapon known to man and not use it against the great enemy know to man aka ze' Devil?

I can tell you that ever since I listened to Paul's words in Romans 10:17, I've realized the validity of it.  You can read all the "spiritual" books in the world, you can listen to sermons until your eyes turn blue, but until you dive into the Word yourself, nothing really changes.  You start to understand God more and most importantly you are able to defend your faith against the Enemy.  Look at it this way, even the greatest warrior at some point will need a weapon; you can fight with hands all you want, but once those conquistadors come with guns you are toast.

That's exactly how it works! I mean look at Jesus' life.  Look at when Jesus was being tempted by the devil and how the Devil would utter scripture to him!?  Really Satan...you have the audacity to utter the scripture to the "Great I am", to the man that was present before the beginning??  How arrogant!  And if the Adversary uses the scripture on the Perfect One, just imagine what he does to us.  That's why we absolutely need to stay scripitured up.  Cuz we are ina a nonstop spiritual War! (Matthew 4:1-11)

I know...I know, there are statistics out there that consistently state that Americans don't read...and if they don't read things they "want" to read like newspapers, comic books, and novels, they why the heck would they read something as "boring" as the Bible? Blah...Blah..Blah...I say that lovingly, but when it comes down to it, we live in the 21st century, so you can get Bible apps and you can even listen to the Bible while you are driving like one of my closest friends   The important thing is that you are getting it into your system.

And once you start reading the Word, don't stop!  There are going to be various forces that try to hinder it.  Your body might say "I'm tired" or you phone might be blowin up with text messages or whatever.  Don't stop.  Keep pressing on, because take it from me, once you stop, it's extremely hard to restart.

I'm reminded of deep gospel song by Deitrick Haddon called "The Word" whose chorus eloquently says:

Lets live This Word

I need the Word

Gotta have the Word

He is the Word

And His Word

Keeps us from day-to-day

Nuff Said!

So, let me ask you, when was the last time you really read your bible??  Are you a little overdue?  If so, pick it up and read it.  If you are consistently reading your bible, keep on reading it!  Go...Go.. Go!

God Bless You All!
--MJA (Love God.Love People.)