Will You Join Me ???

     Every question and challenge in life is an open book test.   Problem is we have closed the book!!!   Be it reverence and wanting to protect the book from tatters and tears, or thinking closed covers make the hardiest of foundations on which to swear an oath, or even the practice of retiring the book to a shelf six days a week and it only becoming an accessory to proper church attire on Sunday, it’s the wrong answer and leads to scoring failure, plain and simple.

     It’s time to open this book, God’s Bible, (or Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth) and when we’re tested, search and find the answers etched onto its pages.   Maybe I stand alone, but I truly believe we are not solely to swear by the Bible but “soul”y to open and wear the Bible as children clothed in God’s wardrobe of ways.   We, Christians, have let our Biblical core become complacent in a world of political correctness and compliance.   We’ve allowed Caesar’s rights to imply God is wrong.  

     Let me emphasize that God doesn’t call us to judge.   That’s His alone to do, and He will.   However, God does call us to be a reflection not only of His love but also His commands.   Looking into a political arena and thinking we will discover a Godly path is flawed and futile.   Looking into God’s Word is an accurate script for how to chart a course in both smooth sailing and stormy seas.   Direction best comes from God’s decisive leading and not by following divisive political verbiage.

     So why is today’s trend for our Bibles to remain closed, neatly wrapped in padded covers and tightly squeezed into bookcases?   In olden days, when life was much more Godly, Bibles rested open on our ancestor’s tables.   Life’s lessons flowed from Bible pages way back then.    Thus, could it be that the way for 21^st Century Christians to recapture Godly thought, word and action, might best rebound from opening up our Bibles?   Instead of coming up with solutions on our own, what if we sought our “soul”utions from the Bible?

     This morn, I fetched my Mother’s aged and worn Bible from the hiding place where I was trying to preserve it.   Laughing at myself for being so mistaken, I realized if the Bible is, in the truest sense, to be preserved, it must lie open so pages can be scoured in search of God’s answers to all problems. 

     Side by side, will you join me in this stance?   May all our homes, as a symbol of our Christian alliance and God reliance, set out our open Bibles where daily we’ll remember: Every question and challenge in life is an open book test; and, absolutely, our BOOK is open!!!