How Heavy Is Your Bible?

How much does your Bible weigh? Modern day, advanced technology and people pleasing churches have accomplished turning Bibles into feather weight, fit in your pocket references. Whittled down to near emaciation might be a pleasing look to the world, but God frowns on His Word being viewed as such. God’s Word must never weigh in as needing to go on a diet. Our Bibles should be heavyweights — stuffed full of nourishing calories that enable us to attain giant-size stature in knowing and living as Children of God.

Sad, but in many ways, Christians are giving up the meat and potatoes of their Bibles and, instead, munching on human-injected sugar-coated whip cream and marshmallow versions of God’s Word. Nourishing on the Bible is not a fast food, drive through experience. It is a made from scratch, God family banquet and meant to take a lifetime to partake of and digest.

Mankind seems constantly tantalized by Satan advertising there’s a new Bible menu, better equipped to feed our busy schedules, alternative lifestyles, and worldly needs. Newsflash — God has not, is not and will not be authentically found in this “knock-off” of His Word. God’s Word has not, is not and will not ever deviate from its original text. If our lives are to know God, follow God and reflect God, then we must read, study and personify the full weight and way of Scripture as written by God, not abbreviated or changed by Satan, sleeping churches or busy schedules’ shortcut routes.

Over the Centuries, Bibles have physically shrunk in size and weight. Thinner paper and smaller print have facilitated this. The “You Version” phone Bible App has reached over one billion installs. This is good, not bad, as it conveniently puts God’s Word into the hands of massive people across our world. However, our hands must hold onto every ounce of wisdom and guidance as written by God. No matter in what form our Bible is, we must be faithful to Scripture being authentically discerned and not personally interpreted. Scripture must resound what God says and not what we might want to hear.

We all need to ask ourselves how much our Bible weighs. If we’ve allowed it to become slimmed down and watered down, it’s time we put the weight of God’s muscle back into His Word.