Words On A Page

Books. Do you read them?

Books are made up of a bunch of paper with ink all over them forming letters and words. Nothing more. Right? Wrong. There is a story and when it's read, it becomes alive! You are transported to another place and time and forget that you are actually living in the here and now. When you read books, you forget who you are and you escape the reality of this world only to experience the fantasy world of someone else's imagination.

So, what happens when you read the bible? Does it enable you to escape who you are? Are you transported to a place where only the imagination can take you? Can you escape the reality of this world?

The ink on the paper in your bible isn't any different than the ink on the pages in another book. Yet, there is something amazingly different. The words are different. I mean, really different. It's words are living. As far fetched as that sounds, it's really true. The thought of words being alive are about as rediculous as....well....I don't know what. So, what makes these words alive? God, of course! If you've ever read the first few pages of the bible, you'll notice that when God speaks, things appear out of nowhere and are created.....just by Him speaking them into existance! WOW! How easy is it for you to wrap your mind around that? Pretty difficult, huh? It sounds like something you'd see in a sci-fi movie or something.

It constantly amazes me to hear of people reading this particular book and having their lives change before their very eyes. Something happens when you read it. It's an invisible thing that happens, but the effects of the change in your life become the visible part that everyone sees. Nothing reaches up and physically grabs you like what you'd see in a movie. So you never have to worry about that stuff happening. Where the grabbing comes in, is where the living words on those pages spiritually reaches into your heart, into your soul, and into your mind and changes things around so much that you become somehow different. You won't be able to explain what happened to you, because there is no way of explaining something so miraculous...other than saying that the creator of the universe touched me!

Read these words and be changed. The bible is entirely made up of words that God spoke directly to us or through human beings to show us who He was and is and always will be. The entire book is designed to show us how we are to live and how we are to not live. Living any way other than how He says to do it, will only bring us pain and suffering. God never wants us to be in pain and suffering. This is a choice we must all make: whether we will do things our way or His way. The bible is filled with 66 books and all of them together tell a beautiful love story. The love story is about people and God and how God will do anything and give up everything in order to have us in Heaven with Him! Now that's beauty beyond anything else I can imagine!

Read the bible. God's words are alive!