The Bible; A Blessing to Choose or
A Before Bedtime Snooze?
Before I became a Christian, when I was working w/ other alcoholics, I knew that they would experience insomnia when they would try to sleep at night. So I told them to read a boring book at night to help them sleep. I told them to read the bible.
Some time after that, different people would come to my apartment & share different things out of the bible and I would really get a lot out of what they told me. After they would leave though, I'd go to read my own bible and still find it lifeless and difficult to understand.
One of the things that showed me God had changed my life when I became a Christian was that I had a desire to read the bible. It clearly had not been the case prior to me meeting Christ. Since that time, January of 94, I find that I go through seasons.
There are times when I want to start in the book of Genesis and read all the way through. Other times, I look for particular books and I slowly digest chunks of those scriptures, a little bit at a time. What makes me wonder though, is that I run into a lot of Christians, teens & adults alike, that don't really seem to desire reading the bible very much. Does anybody have any insight into why that may be?
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I think when God changes your desires and your heart, one thing He does is replaces a hatred a disregard for His word for a love for His words. When someone has been saved, they will want to know what their Savor has to say to them.
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