Our church family has taken the Bible reading challenge. As a church family we will be reading through the Bible in the year 2015. We will have many other activities throughout the year to promote the reading and the learning of God's word. This got me thinking more about the Bible as I have been preparing and reading more for next year.
First, have you ever realize that the Bible was written 2000 years ago and much farther back. But the words of God are just as relevant today as they were many, many years ago when Moses, David, Luke, and John wrote them. God's word is timeless and is just as fresh today when we are reading it as it was when it was written. So next year as my church and I read through the Bible and we read through books like Exodus or Hosea, they will be just as important, fresh, and powerful as when they were read the first time. This is the amazing aspect of God's fresh words to us today. They have never changed and still impact us the same.
This leads us to the second amazing aspect about the Bible, it is just as timely today as when it was written to the first audience. We the church today are not the nation of Israel, nor are we the church in Rome or Philippi. But God and His word still speak to us today in the timely manner that we need. Next year as we read through the Bible as a church, not every passage ever day will speak with power that we need for that day. But some days the Words of God from that passage that we have read will speak to the exact situation that we need for that moment or day. God's word is always brought to us by God when He knows we need to hear it and is given when we need to hear from God.
So the Bible is a timeless yet at the same time a timely word from God. Amen, for this beautiful, amazing, powerful, and graceful book from the Creator for the ages and the day
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