wonders

It often amazes me how God will continue to bring up the same things over and over again. Like today . . . this afternoon I was listening to a sermon online form a favourite speaker of mine and they talked about asking God to amaze us with what He shows when we come to His Word. Then tonight at church was the introduction to a series on Revelation and the pastor talked about how the book of Revelation was written to make us worshippers when it writes down the amazing things that John saw in visions from God.

As I heard that tonight I made a connection in my head that I hope makes sense to those of you reading this. Revelation can be a difficult book to read and understand because of what it describes, and yet it is full of amazing things that should cause us to fall on our knees in worship of our God. I connected it to what I had heard earlier than the day online about asking God to amaze us with His Word and what He reveals to us. I think that when we turn to reading the Word of God asking for Him to amaze us, we will fall on our knees in worship of Him . . . and I think this is especially true when we read a book like Revelation. This side of eternity I do not think we will ever be able to fully grasp what all of the stuff contained in Revelation means, but when we read it and what we read about should cause us to fall on our knees in worship.

OK, I hope that made sense to you. I am not sure it made sense as I wrote it, but that is as clear as I can get it.

if you want me to

OK, I know I have been sharing a lot of songs and videos lately, but they have been things that God has been using and I share them in case God wants to use them in your life.

On that note, here is another song I have come to appreciate lately.

do i really know Scripture?

I have been thinking a lot about how much I actually know Scripture in the past couple of weeks. I mean I know a lot about the Bible and what is in there. But I have been thinking a lot about how much I actually know what it says. I find that quite often I end up in a situation where I know that the Bible has something to say about a topic and if I have my Bible I can find it eventually because I know where to look on the page to find it, but I do not actually know what the verse or passage has to say about it.

As I have thought about this more, I have come to the conclusion that I want to actually know more of the Bible . . . not just know about it or the page that it is on in my Bible . . . but to actually know it. To have passages and verses that I know so well that I can remember them without having to have my Bible in front of me.

I am not usually one to make New Year's Resolutions, but this is one that I have made this year. I want to actually memorise Scripture . . . not just read it and know about it . . . but actually know what it says.

I wonder if that is something that more followers of Christ need in their own lives. As a kid I was often memorizing Bible verses for Sunday school or another kid's program at church, but as I got older that stopped. If it was important for us to do it as kids, why do we seem to think it does not have to same importance now. As I have thought about it recently I have started to think that maybe it is even more important now - maybe it is something we need to make more of a priority in our lives.