Monday 27 Feb 2012

Monday Reading: Psalm 19:7

Key Verse: Psalm 19:7
7  The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Devotion:
One thing we can do is pick fault in the bible… Let me qualify that! The bible as we now know it is a book that has been translated and gathered together from the words written down by some pretty amazing people who had been inspired by God to write down His Law. What we can never do is to pick any fault in His Law because it is perfect. We may find a spelling mistake or two in some bibles and some even go a bit ‘off the wall’ in their translations of the original text; so much so that we may be lead astray by them rather than being brought back to God through them. Now I am sure that God will make sure that people will get the right message when He wants them to, but having a good and firm start is always the best way.

When Christ came to us in human form, He was still without sin and what He said to each of the people He spoke to was exactly what they needed to hear. For all those men who have written God’s Word down for us to now read, He made sure that they got the right message up front. As we see when we are introduced to the disciples, not all of them were clever or scholars but quite the contrary. God wanted to make sure we did get the message plain and simple – that it is His Word that will make us wise and not the fact that we chose to do something with it by binding the words in a single book.

I am not sure what the disciples would have thought of being able to carry the whole Word of God round in their hands rather than just parts of it in sacks and cases. Quite what they would have thought about people who would not want to read the bible, well, that is another matter. They knew just how special God’s Word was to them and they made sure that they got to tell as many people as possible. When these words were written down, David did not know that we would eventually all have ready access to those very words – but He knew just how special God’s Law is and he wanted to make sure that others would get to hear it; so God inspired him to write down so much for our learning nowadays.

How could we think anything less of God’s Word than the perfection that it is? How can we ever hope to be able to get to know God when we live in such a corrupt world? How, by taking a step back from our worldly lives and reading about what God wants us to know about. God’s Word has been written for us!

Points to Ponder:
How often do you use things made for you?

Do you get personal with God’s Word in your life?