The more we know the Word of God, the more we love God. The more we love God, the more we will love the Word of God. As someone has said, “It’s like a spiral stairway to Glory.”
We do need to enthrone God’s Word in our hearts. Remember Joseph. When Potiphar’s wife made improper advances toward him, he said in Genesis 39:9b, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
The old excuses of: “Everybody else is doing it;” “We love one another;” “I don’t see anything wrong with it.” These excuses wouldn’t cut ice with Joseph. Why? Because Joseph loved God, and as a result, he loved the Word of God.
A man in Kansas City was severely injured in an explosion. Evangelist Robert I. Sumner tells about him in his book, The Wonders of the Word of God. The victim’s face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands. He was just a new Christian, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no longer read the Bible. Then he heard about a lady in England who read Braille with her lips. Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in Braille. Much to his dismay, however, he discovered that the nerve endings in his lips had been destroyed by the explosion. One day, as he brought one of the Braille pages to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised characters and he could feel them. Like a flash he thought, I can read the Bible using my tongue. At the time Robert Sumner wrote his book, the man had “read” through the entire Bible four times.
How many times have you read the Bible through, and how many verses have you hid in your heart this year alone? About time to start, don’t you think?
What to do:
✞Don’t make excuses. Just hide God’s Word in your heart.
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