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12.31.2014

Time Goes On

Another year is upon me, upon the rest of the earth.  Like the wonder of a newborn babe, it comes.  A still quite hush hovers now. At the stroke of midnight, the joyous cry of more life gracing this old world will pierce the silence.

God will orchestrate this coming year as all the countless others. Thousand upon thousand they roll on.

He is the eternal One...outside of time, hours, minutes, seconds.  He is not limited to the monotonous tick of a clock, as the hands pass over and over the face.  He is beyond calendars, beyond ALL.

As this dawn of a New Year approaches, God offers the question to me quietly...

As you stand here in your room, if you knew this would all be gone...destroyed...when you came back: What would be the one thing you would take, save?

I look around, thinking deep, knowing right away my answer.   My Bible--the Word of God.




One thing is necessary. Only one.

"Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word. But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.” But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”  >> Luke 10:38-42


To sit at Jesus' feet, listening to His Words that are oxygen to the soul. I once heard someone say that when you open the Bible, God's breath comes out of it. Another person said that it is God's exhale because He breathed life into it just as He breathed life into Adam...that His breath moves within the pages.

As a baby fills its lungs with air, with the first cry begging for life, the oxygen gives sustaining life.  The Word is also pure milk that nourishes.  I need to crave it just as a newborn.  Often. {see 1 Peter 2:1-3} It becomes a necessity for my survival in the suffocating, malnourished conditions this world has to offer me. I need it while seconds turn into minutes, hours cocoon into days, develop weeks and months which emerge as a year. Delicately formed, created.

The time spent with Jesus, drinking His Words of purity, holiness, and wisdom is also an engraving on my heart never to be taken away.  Ever.

How often I take for granted what a gift I posses in the Bible.   I have not only my own copy,  but the freedom to carry it with me without fear of being severely beaten, jailed, or killed over it.  Sadly,  by dwelling in my safe little world of America, I forget this harsh reality is true for many Christians in the world. They are persecuted.  They die for the sake of carrying God's Words of Life, the Gospel to their fellow man. They take risks for the Kingdom no matter what the cost.  I've been chided by this truth lately.

This year, my focus and goal is to let my heart, soul, and mind be saturated with God's Word.  To treat it as a precious, costly treasure.  It the most valuable thing I own.

It is something worth living and dying for.


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