Dr. Robert Flores, one of our newest pastors, said something that struck me last night. He said, "How big is your Bible?"
He didn't mean what is the actual size of your Bible, he meant how big is YOUR Bible. Like, the one you have in your heart. How many verses do you know? How much truth from it do you have inside you? If someone came and took your Bible and you couldn't get access to it anymore, would you have anything in your head that you could hang onto from it and share? That is your Bible.
For now, we can have our actual Bibles, but that may not always be the case. And even with that being the case, we may not always have it on us when we need it. We may be in a time of despair and maybe we're in the car or at a party, so we need to have its truth stored in our heads and our hearts so we can pull from that storage and revive ourselves with it. Also, there may be someone around us that's in despair, and we can't always play the, "You should come to my church, there's these really great pastors that know the Bible," card. We need to have the love and truth of the gospel so engrained in us that we are sharing the message as we speak whenever we speak. And that requires studying the Bible and really having it for ourselves at any time, even without the pages.
I know a lot of truth from the Bible, but I can't say I spend too much time memorizing it. I want to get the story of the Bible fully into my being so I can share about it at any time, but there are some really great verses to memorize that would be good for everyday rejuvenation.
Hmm.. Let's find one.
Oh, here's one I like a lot.
2 Timothy 1:7 - "For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control" (ESV).
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
(Sometimes it helps if I write it out a bunch.)
Now get going on YOUR Bible.
