Since this is my first opportunity to write today and I don't want to miss another post, I decided to repost this from 2011 (guests arrive shortly). Just this week I turned 46 and it gave me lots to think about: God's grace and mercy that got me through this far, how much He really loves me, how blessed I am with an incredibly diverse and awesome family, wonderful friends, the ability to worship where and how I please and much more. I might be one year older, but God and His Word never get old!!!
Getting Old
A few minutes ago I had to return a call
to my Mom. You would think it was a Laurel
and Hardy routine as I tried verbally to figure out what she was saying and not
saying. Phone calls to her these days
tend to be very frustrating now that she is in her late 70’s. She is getting old, but then, so am I. The other day my sister and I were talking
about our physical maladies so much we sounded like a couple of seniors though
I am 44 and she is in her 50’s. It seems
like a lot of middle aged people are feeling physically old these days.
All things tend to get old and when they
do, they wear out (like jeans), wear down (like a car) or go bad (like the
green looking meat in the container in my fridge). Sometimes we grow bored of movies we’ve seen
too often or books we’ve read too much (can anyone say ‘The Cat in the
Hat?’). Yet there is one thing that
NEVER gets old- the Word of God.
Back when I was a child people found
comfort in the scriptures. We still find
comfort in those same scriptures today- as did the people of God 4000 years ago
right up until now. How can words
written so long ago have relevance and value in our lives today? Because the words in the Bible are unlike any
other book out there.
For the word of
God is quick (to live/ alive), and powerful (active), and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing (penetrating) even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Heb. 4:12
All scripture
is given by inspiration (divinely breathed) of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2Tim. 3:16
(Jesus said) Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Mat. 24:35
…word, which
is able to save (save/ deliver/ protect) your souls (spirit). Jas. 1:21
If you want the abundant life that Jesus
came to give, you’ve got to spend lots of time reading the living words in the Bible
and getting to know the living (John 6:69) God of the Bible. Then the living words will cut and divide,
heal and restore and actively transform
your life and mind. (Rom. 12:2; 2Cor. 3:18) I’ll bet the authors, from Moses through to
the apostles, never considered a young girl in 1983 being transformed by the
words of the scriptures, but here I am a much different person than I was even
in ’83.
The Lord has continually changed
me through and by His living and powerful Word!
He can change you too!
So all of us who have had that veil removed
can see and reflect the
glory of the Lord
And the Lord--who is the Spirit--
makes us more and
more like him as we are changed
into his glorious image.
2Cor. 3:18 NLT