Seeing Worth in Bible Reading

  
 
We don’t know what’s good for us. Really, we don’t. We drink substances that increase our heart rate and blood pressure, but we find it trendy on Instagram and what is delicious in our fast food restaurants. We watch programs that endorse murder, rape and violence and then pull our hairs when we see it manifested through the headlines. 

When did it feel good to be bad become acceptable? Since when did it become appopriate to justify evil? He was selling drugs and even murdered some people but it was to save his family because he was dying of cancer. 

I’m looking at the man in the mirror and realizing that what he enjoys is not healthy. 

What I delight in is not only bad, but it is also short-sighted. It’s Sam posting a picture of her daughter playing with a box disregarding all the toys she has in her room. Or the child I saw in her Sunday dress wallowing in the dirt in front of a playground. 

Our pleasures are not just bad in most cases but just sad and pathetic. C.S. Lewis calls us “half-hearted creatures” because he understood the truth that “the Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak“. We live our lives, “fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy [that is Jesus] is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased” ( C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory and Others Addresses (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company), 3-4).

I jumped between Facebook and SMS one night, because I didn’t desire God, then I fancied myself in opening a book called When I Don’t Desire God. Fancy that. 

I streamed through the pages halfheartedly thinking reading it would justify my apathy. Then I stumbled on Psalms 19:10 which speaks of God’s Word: 

“More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb” (Psalms‬ ‭19:10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

Then it dawned on me: My desire for the Scriptures is pitifully small compared to its true worth. God said of His Word that is it more desirable than precious metals. My eyes drew from the pages towards the ceiling as almost it had rolled back and I was gazing at the beauty of Christ. 

Could I have been someone that has been spectating the glorious splendor of God through a keyhole? 

The Bible, if you let it speak for itself will reveal to you that beyond the collection of grand and captivating pleasures we relish, Christ is the epitome of all that is treasured because He is the ultimate Treasure. 

Upon returning to Israel from exile and 70 year captivity in Babylon, rebuilding the temple was a momentous yet extraordinary task. The older generation compared the restored Temple to the grand splendor of Solomon’s Temple and were downcast.They were downcast at the pale sight of the temple, so God had Haggai prophecy to encourage them that this will not be the permanent face of their sanctuary. One day it will indeed shine in glorious array. 

God commissions Haggai the prophet at that time to call the nation to take courage and depend on God, for though the Temple was unsightly, they must look forward to when the place will be filled with glorious array at the coming of “the Desire of all nations”: 

“For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts” (‭‭Haggai‬ ‭2:6-7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

God promises to shake the heavens and earth. Judah had experienced the shaking of the earth before at the voice of God on Mount Sinai (Hebrews 12:25). God promises they will experience the shaking of the heavens and the earth by the voice of God’s Son at His coming (Hebrews 12:26). Following the shaking of the nations comes the desire of all the nations. If you let yourself, your spirit almost frolicks within this jar of skin at hearing the desire of all nations, like this anticipation has been inside us the whole time anxiously waiting for this desire which will satisfy us completely. 

This desire answered not acutally by something but in someone. 

A desire in Whom all the nations will be blessed (Genesis 12:1). A desire that will endure forever  as a holy mountain that will not fall but cover the enitre face of the earth, shadowing it with awe and glory (Daniel 2:35). A desire that Whose presence is fullness of joy (Psalms 16:11) and will satisfy every heart with His abundance (Psalms 36:8). A desire that has all creation panting and groaning with impatience for His arrival (Romans 8:19-22). A fortune that unfolds in the sincere pondering of His name. 

“Jesus”. 

I looked at a commentary by Bible professor Walter Kaiser on this passage and what I glean from his observation is that Jesus is the desire of the nations as He is the Source of everything, therefore He will be most precious of all that the world holds as valuable. He will answer the desire of the nations by being the what they actually longed for. 

One way God is magnified is how He appears to our understanding. Because God’s “thoughts are not our thoughts ” (Isaiah 55:8), it can then become difficult for us as finite beings with finite minds to comprehend God. God ordained for the earth to be full of the knowledge of God (Isaiah 11:9); therefore, God reveals Himself in various times and various ways to us and communicate to us.  A very special way God has God revealed Himself to us is through the Bible. 

The Scriptures were written so that real and eternal life may be accessible to man through faith in Christ (John 20:31). It produces and preserves life, because it produces faith so that man is capable to live. All life depends on the Word of God. All life was created by it (Psalms 33:6). Life is sustained by it (Hebrew 11:3). The new life (spiritual regeneration) is produced by it (James 1:18) and is accessed by it (1 Peter 1:23). Interpretation is very important, because life depends on it to live (Matthew 4:4). 

His words should not be sweet perfume we take in and regard, but oxygen we take in and depend to live. 

The life that inhabits Him is the light of men. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (‭‭John‬ ‭1:4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬). His light shines as a hope that penetrates the darkness that wants to swallow us in its doom. He is the light of the world. He who follows Him shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life” (John 8:12 NKJV). He is the Word that reveals to us God and He immortalizes His words in a collection of 66 books for them to be a “a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” (‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119:105‬ ‭NKJV‬‬). 

It’s almost like God’s Word is one delicious, filling meal before you and Jesus bellows, “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalms 34:8 NKJV)!!!

It’s His Word that purifies us of sin (John 15:3; Ephesians 5:26). It’s His Word that protects us from sin (Psalms 119:11), that which will result being ashamed of things. It’s His Word that leads us to true delight (Psalms 1119:174). 

Surveying these words, I see more sharply that my appetites need to change. The lenses that are distracting my vision from enjoying what is really worth my time and behold the wondrous truths in God’s instructions (Psalms 1119:18). 

Behold these words of life and be won over to delighting in Christ as true life. Let your appetites be wet to want to see and savor Jesus and testify: “How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth” (Psalms‬ ‭119:103‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)! 

Or go back to sharing with the world what you had to drink today. That never gets old. 

When the Worlds Falls, Stay with Me

It’s funny that frequently when there is a problem in my life, I walk away from God. 

My present state of health discourages me. Headlines in the news disheartens me. Entertainment and music become my means of escape from the difficulties of life. 

But What did God make unclear that we are meant to rely on Him for everything? 

If God is God, being all sufficient that He is, then to remain in Him is the safest place for a person to be. 

What irony to see the disciples who urge Jesus to send the masses of people who sat to listen to Jesus away so they can feed themselves. 

Thankfully, Jesus refuses them (Matthew 14:15). Jesus confounds them even more when He says: 

“They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” (‭Matthew‬ ‭14‬:‭16‬ NKJV)

They found five loaves and two fish, but they saw that wasn’t going to sustain a crowd of 5000 men (this number did not include the women and children who were with them). Veins rose from their foreheads as the crowd grew restless.

It’s like the disciples all wore baseball caps that day that they could not see over the bill of their caps.

The answer is right in front of you! 

Jesus performs a miracle where not only feeds everyone there but also fills 12 baskets of leftovers!

God demonstrates His inexhaustible power that magnificently floored human independence. There was no way that any man could feat to feed those countless thousands instantaneously. Stretching a fish lunch would be a joke. 

Jesus did this supernatural wonder for one important reason: 

“I am all sufficient. Stay with Me.” 

At wake of the ills of the world, the failures of man, the decline of health, the ear of disaster, the sense of hopelessness, you can either turn for an escape, turn on others or turn to Jesus. 

If you’re hungry and have no food, don’t leave me to find food. Didn’t I tell you: 

“do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭25-26‬ NKJV)”

At your want to desert Me to bring meaning and satisfaction in your life, did you hear: “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst (John‬ ‭6‬:‭35‬ NKJV)”!!!

When the sky folds and when people turn on each other, don’t run for a solace, “STAY WITH ME”! Stay with Christ. 

“Christ is enough for me. Christ is enough for me. Everything I need is in You. Everything I need” (“Christ is Enough” -Hillsong Worship). 

Listen to the song and let it be an anthem to you. There isn’t a resort outside of Christ. 

He is everything you need. He is everything you want. I just need to change the way I think and just “taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! (‭Psalms‬ ‭34‬:‭8‬ NKJV)”

Look at Him and find that He is the river and you’re the tree. Sink your roots in the bank. Stay with Him. Your leaves won’t wither; in fact, you will prosper and live to produce what you couldn’t think was able to come out of you (See Psalms 1:3). 

Jesus is everything you need. There is no one like Our God! 

God’s Pleasure: He Wants You

  We aspire to answer the question: am I wanted? Too often our heart strings are racing to be  entangled with whatever hope of someone possibly loving us. We relish at any attention we’re given, either negative or postive, because we are captivated by the thought that someone desires us. 

The long fall back to earth happens at the reality we attained less of our sense of self worth. Wounds cut deep to realize someone we assume cared about us only acted in such a way for their own selfish gain. 

Trust is hard earned today. Honestly, why should we blame anyone for keeping such a guard? We can’t see sincerity in face value as much anymore.

But as cliché as it sounds: God wants us…for us

“Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.” (Ephesians 1:5, 6 NKJV)

God determined beforehand by Jesus Christ to adopt you. He decided that when at your coming to Him to be saved from all wrong that would destroy you, He was going to bring you into His family. And he did for the praise of the glory: He did it because He was pleased to do it. 

Being belonged to God is something that makes Him happy! 

How unfathomable is that? It’s inconceivable enough that God would want to save us in the first place.

It was justice for the terrorist Osama Bin Laden to die, because of he was responsible for the death of countless thousands that are still piling today. What scares me is that God sees it justice by sending everyone to Hell. 

God commanded: The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. (Ezekiel 18:20 NKJV)

That means that the person who sins will die. Sin is whenever you displease God. You displease God when you lie and you displease God for not thanking Him for life. Both are sin. It feels harsh but God made man to make Him happy. Not vice versa. 

He will be individually responsible for his wickedness against God and be punished. Romans 3:10 declares that there is none good. We have all missed the mark. 

The justice of a righteous God demands punishment for every crime against His precepts. The sentence God placed for our disobedience to His precepts is death.

At the shooting of Osama Bin Laden, could we imagine someone taking the bullet for him. No! We all wanted to see him die. He deserved to lose his life for taking so many others’ lives away. 

God is not a man. He looks at wrong differently from us. He doesn’t measure wrong. He sees a toddler throwing the pacifier across the room as bad as a terrorist planning to drive two planes into two skyscrapers to kill people. I lost an uncle at 9/11. He sees every wrong inexcusable and worthy of punishment.  

All that is within me cried for the head of Bin Laden, but at the same place when I first disobeyed God, all heaven cried for my death.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), (Ephesians 2:4, 5 NKJV)

God loved us so much that while we were dead because of our wrong, He gave us life through Christ. God wanted us. And how much: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 NKJV)

Its overwhelming to imagine all that it took for God to bring us to state of being clear of wrong. Christ became sin (2 Corinthians 5:21). Every nasty thing, every secret fault, every evil deed, every selfish motive- Christ became that so you could literally have a clean slate.

I have cried at this fact of Christ dying to save me from death because of my sin and to give me a right standing with God. What also causes my eyes to become teary is to see that God didn’t just saved me from sin but He also adopted me. He made me a part of His family.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (John 1:12 NKJV)

All who believe Christ, God decided to give them the right to be His children! We are born into this family not by human passions or plans that can later be regretted by a parent who has lost concern for his offspring. 

We are born into God’s family by God’s choice. This is what God wanted to do. According Ephesians 1:6 (see top), it gave Him great pleasure to do it.

Just allow your mind to entangle itself around the idea that God loved you at your worst and saved you with His best (the cost of Your Son) and then poured out His love on you by making you a part of His family. I leave you with a story that has impressed me gravely to understand God’s extravagant love.

Indeed if anyone has reason for justice it was Adele. At a genocide in Rwanda, Adele lost her husband. She saw as attackers came and flay his body with a machete. She saw as they slit his throat. As her husband fell to the ground that was a pool of his own blood, the pastor cried out to God to forgive his attackers. These men turned on Adele. They sliced her face deeply. Everyday a mirror shows her great scar. Adele was left among dead bleeding from her face, back and her wrist at the cuts of machetes. Three years it took her to recover. For many it would take a lifetime to even to consider forgiveness. Not Adele.

“I could be a bitter, angry, resentful old woman, but I’m not going to do that.”

Adele started going to the prisoners and mothered the very men who had attack her village. One day Adele met Luis. She met him prostrated before her, kissing her feet and crying bitterly. Adele examined the trembling man and saw that Luis was the man that had killed her beloved husband and the man that marked her face. A man’s love draws its limits at such a woeful event, but Adele was filled richly with a love we saw earlier in God.

Luis asked, “Adele, would you forgive me?”

Adele bent over as the Father did from the clouds of heaven and pulled Luis up as God did from our place of unwantedness. She looked into Luis’ eyes and said, “Luis, I forgive you.”

The story could end there, but it doesn’t. Luis was released for good behavior, but he entered society unwanted. Then entered Adele. Adele found Luis and she saw these words, “Luis, you come and I will adopt you as my son.”

How much does God love you? Enough so that He made death so that it would be difficult for you to remain in wrong. Enough that He made a way for you to escape punishment by the cost of His dear Son. Enough so that He decided to make you His child when you ask for His forgiveness. And it was His great pleasure.

You are wanted.

Living for Jesus Now

 To live for eternity is to accept the brevity (shortness) of life now. 

“But Jesus said to him, ‘Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.'” (‭Matthew‬ ‭8‬:‭22‬ NKJV)

I don’t want to say Jesus hate funerals. Well maybe: He did ruin a couple like the ruler’s daughter (Matthew 8:18-26) and the son of the widow from Nain (Luke 7:11-17). Maybe…yes. 

But in this case, Jesus was not stopping the man from burying dead family. Jesus was refusing the man’s desire to care for his father before he followed Jesus. 

According to Jewish tradition, the man didn’t want to be excused to bury his father. In actuality, the man’s father was very much alive, and he wished to return home and care his father until he aged and died. 

Jesus didn’t want an eventual commitment. He wanted the man to follow Him now and “let the dead, that is the spiritually dead, bury their own dead” (v.22). 

Jesus understood He must urgently attend to the matters God assigned Him while the sun still shined. In John 9:4-5, Jesus taught the followers of Him that they must quickly work for the God the Father Who sent Him. 

“I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (‭John‬ ‭9‬:‭4-5‬ NKJV)

Knowing that it would be soon time for Him die to save the world, Jesus couldn’t waste any time. He wanted to seize every moment to further His cause. 

To follow the Son, we have to realize life here is short. We need to see life here as a temporary assignment, making the most of our time. 

Paul instructed us to “walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭15-16‬ NKJV)”. 

That is, be careful how you live your life. Don’t waste it with what will be considered useless compared to eternity. Don’t live as fools who live only for here and now, thoughtlessly saying, “Y.O.L.O. – You Only Live Once” at every witless decision. 

What you do today does matter forever! 

Living purposefully sees that the days are evil: people are still hopeless and lost, having yet to walk on streets called mercy – the hope found in Christ. 

You need to make the most of every opportunity, buying your time, because the night is coming when we can no longer work to rescue others, snatching them from the flames of eternal judgment (see Jude 1:23). 

Make most of your life like if your time is borrowed. 

Marvel God with Your Faith

  “Only speak the word and my servant will be healed” (Matthew 8:8 NKJV) 

Knowing God is God and that He answers is the most essential factor for any miracle.

“Say the word”, the soldier thundered. 

It halted Jesus Who turned towards the man to go in motion to his home. This soldier interrupted Jesus’ way into the city, pleading to heal his servant. Moved with compassion, Jesus stilled the shaking of the soldier’s eye when He stared into them and noted that He will help him. 

“And Jesus said to him, ‘I will come and heal him.'”(‭Matthew‬ ‭8‬:‭7‬ NKJV)

This when the soldier stops Jesus and says:

“Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.” (Matthew‬ ‭8‬:‭8‬ NKJV)

Then he explained himself: 

“For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it. ” (‭Matthew‬ ‭8‬:‭9‬ NKJV)

This soldier was an officer, a centurion in the Roman army who commanded a hundred men. Being one who takes orders and gives orders, this centurion understood authority. Amazed at the presence of Jesus, the soldier realized that this simple carpenter also spoke with authority. A stronger authority. 

Taken back, Jesus turned to those following Him: “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!” (Matthew‬ ‭8‬:‭10‬ NKJV)

The faith of the centurion marveled God. He came to Jesus believing that He was God and that He would answer his request if he sincerely sought Him. 

Miracles happen in your life in the matter of Who you seek. 

No one can’t approach God without believing He is God! I believe a lot of my prayers hit the brass ceiling, because I forget Whom I’m talking to. I’m talking to God. 

We must approach God believing that He exists and that He cares enough to respond to us. 

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”(‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭6‬ NKJV)

Faith that marvels God is the confidence that when we come to Him, we will find the Source of all our wants and needs. “The assurance when we turn to Him”, adds Pastor John Piper, “we will find the all-satisfying Treasure”.* 

See God as God Who can and Who will. 

Miracles happen when you start with a miracle of seeking God as God in your asking. 

*John Piper, Desiring God is (Colorado Springs, Colorado: Multnomah, 2013), 71. 

Loving Beyond

Loved people always love. 

We love “because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Foreign to our idea of love is God’s way of loving people. 

God wants us as loved people to always love others. 

On a mountain, Christ rallies His new band of followers. In front of a large, restless crowd who have jumbled together to hear this Nazarene, Jesus addresses Who we refer to as the disciples, giving them a different way to love: 

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust”. (Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭43-45‬ NKJV)

Contrary to the tradition of loving your neighbors and hating your enemies, the love Christ prescribed to His disciples was to be transcendent of maltreatment from others and consistent even to wicked people. 

Familiar with the law, the disciples were very much challenged not to avenge themselves against their adversaries but to act as children from the Father that shows compassion on the just and the unjust unlike. 

This brand of love the Father exhibits doesn’t show any bias. Christ called His followers to love as people belonged to God Who supplies sunlight and rain to the good and evil. 

This love of God intends for us is to bring our best to even people who only gives us their worst. We respond in love regardless of how people treat us. 

You love beyond the love of others, because you are a part of a family who loves extravagantly. 

Being in a family includes unique traits. As a Bell, we talk with our hands. We all do it. It doesn’t matter who is in front of us, our hands are part of the conversation. There are like extensions of the lips. 

Being children of God, it’s part of the profile to love beyond commonality. Because our Father is love. 

We reflect the love of the Father that sees everyone important despite their criminal record or attitude at the stoplight. We love, because it’s part of being in the family of God. 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. (‭I John‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬ NKJV)

Live a life of love. 

Matthew, 40 Days thru NT

  

Enter Jesus. A king without a crown. Born without a palace. Yet He comes with honor that breaks the heavens with angelic praise; comes with such authority that men are afraid to even loose His sandals; with such sovereignty that glory interrupted a water baptism to alert everyone that God was among them. 

This is Jesus. God and man. 

Reading into Matthew, I’ve taken a radical challenge to look at this Gospel with an attitude that I’m going to read like this is all new to me. Like its a new TV series. The “episodes” so far in Matthew have been wild and riveting.  I plan to share some more on what God has been showing me already from the first seven chapters I’ve read today. 

Welcome you to join our #The40DayNewTestamentChallenge. 40 days, 28 minutes each day reading through the 27 books of the New Testament. It’s going to be wild! Read or listen- let’s get fed! 

Please share what you’re reading here or Twitter: @johnbell360!  

Today Starts 40 Day NT Reading!

 

Today begins 40 day reading through the New Testament. You can read the Bible or listen to it.  I’m reading the @YouVersion plan ‘The 40-Day New Testament Challenge’. Check it out here: 

http://bible.com/r/Dz

Share what you learn either here in the comments below or on Twitter: @johnbell360!  Maybe you prefer evening than morning it doesn’t matter as long as we getting that food for the soul! 

“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! (‭Psalms‬ ‭34‬:‭8‬ NKJV)

Read Through the New Testament with Me!

  

Let’s be real: we are better together. Sharing the Gospel. Serving at church….pulling weeds. We are able to do great things as a body of believers. 

I struggle reading my Bible. It’s pretty hard for me to sit down and concentrate to do anything. Especially if there’s a butterfly outside or somebody is watching “Sherlock” in the next room. 

My friend David rallied me to join his challenge to read through the New Testament in 40 days. I’m passing the baton to you. 

Why don’t you join us! 

TOMORROW Read together through New Testament in 40 days. 

That’s roughly 28 minutes a day. You can read the Bible or listen to it. We can even share what we learn as we go along either here or on my Twitter feed @johnbell360! 

 I’ll be reading the @YouVersion plan ‘The 40-Day New Testament Challenge’. It will help me ignore the butterflies. Check it out here:

http://bible.com/r/Dz

Your Heart, Home for God’s Word

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (‭Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ NKJV)

Devotional author Kay Arthur has a real cozy way to explain verse:

“God wants His Word to be a home to us”.

Who is a stranger in their own house? Is there anywhere that I can kick up and relax – it’s my own home! It’s a place of refuge, security and familiarity – a sense of belonging.

Having God’s Word dwell richly within us is letting the message about Christ become a place of belonging in our lives.

It’s me opening my Bible each day with desire.

Reading the Scriptures should be just a fluid as me using the facet. I regularly use the facet because I want to use it; I need to use it; (my family likes me using it too especially I first wake up and apply the toothbrush to the tongue) and because I enjoy to use it.

The message of Christ was much at home to Timothy. Paul regarded this when he wrote to Timothy:

“…from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (II Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬ NKJV).

Growing up in the Word was a part of Timothy’s life. It was home to him!

Let the Word live in your life. Make it something you delight to seek.

Don’t just read it. Welcome it home!