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“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” John 20:21 I heard about a passive Quaker who had a cantankerous milk cow. And every time he tried to milk that cow, the cow gave him trouble. So on one particular morning, he was trying to get milk and the cow kicked over the milk bucket and spilled it all over the Quaker! So, being the passive man he was, the Quaker didn’t say a word and just began milking again. And about that time the cow reared back and kicked him all the way across the room! He got back up and decided he had had enough. He walked over to the cow and said, “You know that I am a Quaker and therefore, I cannot strike you, nor can I curse you; but I can sell you to a Baptist who will!” Now in the Christian life, you and I are called not to be passive, but to be active for the cause of Christ. And when we read the words of our Lord in today’s passage, they are a call to active Christian living. So, just as Christ was actively obeying His Father during His time here on earth, so you and I are to spend our lives actively living out Jesus’ mission for us!   JUST AS CHRIST LIVED OUT THE FATHER’S MISSION ON EARTH, SO YOU ARE TO ALSO ACTIVELY LIVE OUT THE MISSION JESUS HAS FOR YOU!

Making Much of the Bible

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
Psalm 1:1–3

I read about a man in India writing to a friend and giving a report on a mighty work God was doing in his church and his community by saying, “We are having a great rebible here.” His language and grammar may not have been 100 percent correct, but the sentiment is exactly right. What we need is not better methods or new doctrines or cutting edge techniques. What we need is to be “rebibled”—to have the Word of God fill our hearts and minds and to change the way we live.
Thousands of years have passed since the first part of the Bible was recorded. The individual books were penned by a variety of human authors in different countries and different languages. Any human product thus created would be riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions and errors. The Bible, however, is not because each author was inspired by the Holy Spirit so that the words God meant for us to have were faithfully recorded. (See 2 Peter 1:21.)
The Bible is constantly under attack, both from those who deny it and from those who wish to alter it to fit their beliefs and practices. When we set ourselves up to judge what God has said, we destroy our ability to receive His guidance and direction and truth. Exercising faith in God’s Word means more than simply accepting what it says. It is also to follow it in obedience day by day.
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

God has given us an incredible treasure and resource in His Word, and we must make full use of it.