The Ark of the Covenant
held three things inside. One was the
tables of stone, the law, the Ten Commandments.
Israel carried the Word of God with them everywhere they journeyed.
We, as well, are to take
God’s Word with us wherever we go. We
read in Colossians 3:16, “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.”
A couple decided that they
should do something together to strengthen their marriage. They decided to go
duck hunting together. They’d heard of
other people going duck hunting with dogs, so they figured they needed to buy a
good hunting dog and buy the dog they did.
They got all of their equipment and their dog and took off to go duck
hunting for the day. They tried getting
some ducks, but they came to the end of the day and hadn’t gotten one. The husband looked at the wife and said,
“Honey, we’ve got to be doing something wrong here. We haven’t caught a duck yet.”
The wife said, “Well,
maybe, if we throw the dog up a little higher, he can catch a duck this time.”
That’s what a lot of us
are doing. We’re trying to get a dog to
do what a gun was meant to do. We’re
trying to accomplish things in our lives with tools that don’t work or don’t
make sense. A dog is not the right
weapon to get ducks. You need firepower
to bring a duck down.
A lot of us have “hound
dogs” trying to fix our marriage. We’re
on the phone with “hound dog” girlfriends or guy friends. All they’re doing is barking us up into more
mess. We’re doing everything but using
firepower from heaven. It’s not that
we’re not trying. The question is, what
are we trying?
The Word of Christ must
dwell in us richly. It has to be the
basis of our decisions.
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