Scripture Merely Superfluous???

Oh the wonders of muscle memorization... after a week of unsuccessfully trying to acccess my account and changing my password, I sit down today, unaware of what I'm doing accessing my blogger account... and she's in! Amazing...

So I'm sitting at home. With a new Bible. Random yes, but extremely definitive for me. I just put away my two older Bibles, worn and marked up. With the Spiritual ups and downs of the last semester, unfortunatley instead of becoming more faded, they grew rather dusty. My daily devotions became a rather meager and pathetic "ok Lord, here's a chapter, and please help me."

I find that I get stuck in a rut, simply reading over the highlighted or marked passages, thinking in my mind, "Oh, here comes a good verse!" I'm not sure whether the Apostle Paul would want to smack me or simply laugh at me as a stupid child regarding that remark. I'm sure he had no intention in writing "good" and "bad" verses.

Anyways, all this to say, I decided I needed a new Bible, a new translation, a fresh start. This time, I have challenged myself to not write in it or highlight it, but rather to read it afresh each time, allowing the Holy Spirit to show me new things, and not let myself be hindered from past lessons learned.

On another note, yet still connected, is my absolute frustration of the lack of Passion in Christ's followers for reading His written Word. Yes I grow weary of the strenous exercise it gives to my mind, intellect, and conscience, but I still weigh it's absolute importance in shaping my life and growing me closer to my Savior. I am who I am because of the way the Word has taken effect in my life. "Faith comes from hearing, and hearing, by the Word of God." Oh, us of little faith.

Over the next couple days, I hope to delve into this subject, and I hope to prove that our existence is simply worthless from an eternal perspective without this vital verbatim being poured into our lives on a consistent basis.

Seeing as there are countless numbers of people dying in different parts of the world simply because they are reading this book, it must be extremely important... even our enemies know it. In fact, I believe that Satan has made believers apethetic to the Word of God because he knows of its powers. Obviously we are missing something, and if the Word may be worth dying for, we owe it to ourselves to at least think very intensively on this subject.