The word of God is given the highest priority by the Lord Himself. The gospel of John equates the Word of God to Jesus stating that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word is God. Jesus Himself quoting God speaking to Israel stated that God’s word should be given greater priority than even eating stating that man shall not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
If we desire to change our lives and even the communities that make up our nation it starts with a reverence of the word of God, yet today many churches within the body of Christ downplay the importance and even the source of scripture, equating it with other writings of men because after all isn’t that what it really is?
True disciples of Jesus take God at His word that all scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for everyday living, correcting us and developing our worldview. Therefore if we believe that the bible is God’s word and that it has authority in our lives, why do so many bibles go unread and unstudied? If we really believe that we are living in the last days, should we not be coming together to study His word more often not less?
Do you want to know why your life is not better than it is? It is because you are probably hearing less of the word of God and living it out even less than that. Harsh I know, but am I wrong?
It is because we allow ourselves to live like the world even though we claim that Jesus is our Lord and Savior. Without the regular reading and hearing of the word of God we drift further from the truth because we do not allow ourselves to be called out on our sin. If we read His word and listened in a church that read His word we would be challenged on our immorality of all varieties and we would not make the lame excuses for our bad choices.
I am not saying you and I would be perfect, but I am saying it is harder to get away with the stuff we do because the word would make us think twice about being so blatantly selfish. You and I would most likely be less like the world and more like the Lord because we study the word of God to show ourselves approved.
This is a choice we make to change our lives forever.
