What’s the Point?
February 3, 2010 Leave a comment
It’s granted that a good number of Bible believing Christians do not regularly read the book that they say they believe in. Yet, if you look at your friend of another major religion, you always see them doing those things that their religion requires of them. Why is that? What’s the point? They know that by doing those things they are going to get closer to their god and reach heaven when they die (so they believe, anyway). Much like the children of Israel as recorded in the Bible, most Christians feel that they can put God on the back burner and not pay any attention to Him until they need something from Him; we figure that our pastor is perfectly capable of giving us everything we need from the Bible without having to dust it off and read it for ourselves.
We can even take a look at our own lives for a moment and we’ll see that we innately are dedicated to almost everything other than God. We will spend countless hours studying, writing papers, and so on to earn our college degree so that we can get a higher paying job. We will work overtime at our job to impress our boss so we can get that promotion. We will even bend over backwards to impress that man/woman of our dreams. Just about everything we do is of temporary value, but what are we willing to do in order to achieve those things that are of eternal value? Pointed question, isn’t it? Indeed it is, but it’s one that every Christian needs to answer.
Why should we read our Bible? The answer is simple: we need to be just as devoted to the Word of God as we are to just about everything else in our lives, but more so. Our motivation for reading the Holy Bible should be so that we can work toward a closer relationship with our Father in heaven, as well as having a greater understanding of both His person and character. We see the dedication that those of other religions are putting into serving their false gods, so why aren’t we able to put forth the same effort in worshiping the one true God?
—Read.Pray.Worship.Live.
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