Wednesday 10 Jan 2018

January 10: 2 Timothy 3:14-17

Key Verse: 2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness

Devotion:
It is said that you are able to absorb more knowledge when you are young. That is exactly what we should be doing when we become Christians. As young Christians we need to learn as much as possible to get a good foundation into our lives. For if we do not, we face an uphill struggle as we become set in our ways and then have to face reading God's Word. If we do not start out by reading His Word, we will face so much temptation when we do try to get down to reading it we may well fail in our attempts and become disheartened. The longer we put off reading God's Word, the harder we will find it to read it – that is just Satan's way of trying to stop you from following God...

It is by reading and thinking about what we read that we will learn the most. We may well be able to go to church once a week and listen to a preacher explain things; but it is the fact we have a bible and we can access that bible each and every day which gives us the opportunity to learn more. When we go to school we are given text books which we study from. If we had enough sense we would study from them as soon as we got them rather than having to try and read all of them a few weeks before the exams to try and get us through those exams. Our teachers may well not have the time to cover everything, but we have the time outside of school to read up on things – it just takes a bit of dedication.

Setting aside a time each day to read our bibles and learn what we can is going to be so much more profitable than just going to church once a week. All scripture is God-breathed. In other words, God is the one behind the scriptures. Without Him, man would not have been able to write such wisdom. God continues to make sure the bible is available to more and more people each year, and yet so few actually have the dedication to sit down and read it each day... That is a crying shame...

Points to Ponder:
Is it not better to learn a bit every day than cram the impossible into a few days?

God wants us to be comfortable about reading His Word always?