During the last few weeks, I have been preaching about the Bible...God's Word...God's Perfect Words. The Bible is filled with treasures, blessings, and promises from God. The Bible...the infallible, inerrant word of God...is our foundation. It is the source of our strength. It provides us with much needed encouragement. Its words bring us to a presence of God. The B-I-B-L-E ... yes that's the book for me!

   As God's people we all need to be reading and studying God's Word. We need to get all that we can out of it. Maybe we just need to read it with a new "freshness." One such way is to "pray" before reading it... asking God to open up our understanding. We need to ask God to open up our hearts and minds and our eyes to its meaning. Another important thing to do when reading the Bible is to "act" on it. This means to read it deliberately and with intentionality. And thirdly, when it comes to reading the Bible, maybe we just need to "reset" or re-focus on its words. It is one thing to merely "read" the Bible... but it is another thing to "really read" the Bible! My prayer for all of us is that we fall in love with God's Word all over again!