Church tomorrow has been cancelled. We cannot meet together for at least a week. The hope is that limiting our contact will slow down the spread of the coronavirus. We do it out of love, to take precautions aimed at protecting the weakest and most frail among us.
So it will be up to us to get enough spiritual nourishment to sustain us. This gives a new appreciation for the Word of God which has been given and is available to us. What a gift!
We know the Bible contains the words and ways of God, His promises and truths which can help us grow in knowing Him and becoming more like the Lord Jesus. Yet it requires discipline to set aside time and focus our attention on this Word. Our hearts must be willing and pure. Our desire must be to listen, learn, and grow.
Why would we do all this? How can we muster all that discipline and effort and desire? It's a question of our treasure. Listen to David speaking to God:
How precious to me
are Your thoughts, o God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Psalm 139:17
David saw the value and magnitude of God's thoughts. They had great worth to him, to the point that he would call them precious. When something captures our affections in that manner our desires drive us toward that thing with delightful intensity! Discipline can guide our regular patterns of time management, but desire is the engine that moves us.
I see this as the goal: the treasuring of God's Word.
So let's encourage one another in the high value of the Word of God.
Share a verse or a portion of Scripture that is precious to you.
written by Gina
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“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
- Colossians 1:15-17
- Kris
Karen