Cut -n- Paste.

Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Cut ‘n Paste. What are your favorite verses of Scripture? We all have them – those verses that have gotten us through the tough times or held us up through some particular trying valleys. Maybe they are verses you learned in Sunday school as a child that have lodged themselves into your mind so deeply that you’ll never forget them. There are just those verses that we seem to know better than others.
Just about anyone you ask knows John 3:16 by heart, and that’s definitely one of my favorites in all of Scripture. A lot of folks know Romans 3:23, or the other verses from the famous “Roman Road of Salvation” like 5:8, 6:23, 10:9 – 13, etc. We all know and love Philippians 4:13, and we see it plastered on the jerseys and t-shirts of sports teams all the time. We love Ephesians 2:8 – 9, because it tells us we are saved by grace through faith and not of works.
But what about verses like James 2:9, that tells us if we judge a person’s value based on their outward appearance we commit sin? And then there’s 1 Corinthians 6, which tells us that we have a responsibility to honor God with the conduct of our body because, after all, we have been “bought with a price…” (6:20) There are the verses that list gossip as a sin among witchcraft, murder, and adultery. There are yet other verses that tell us that our decisions and choices can help someone decide to accept Christ and go to heaven or deny Christ and go to hell.
Yet as I look at Scripture, and from time to time read verses that are particular uncomfortable and demand some sacrifice, repentance, and change from me, I rarely see those verses listed as people’s favorites. We want the inspirational verses, the ones that talk about heaven and pump us up. Yet we need to be challenged and convicted when we stray from God’s plan and purpose for our life and it’s often not the “feel good” verses that do that.
So here we are – cutting and pasting the Word like it’s our right to do so. We pick and choose the verses we like, and tend to discount the ones that don’t “fit us that well.” Well, God’s Word clearly says that “All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable…” I have a theory that our lives would look immensely different if we would stop picking and choosing and begin to allow God to apply more of His Word to our own lives.
My challenge for you today? Purpose in your heart to read the Word more on a daily basis. Commit to allowing God to speak to you, and change you, with this “Sword of the Spirit” called the Word of God. He wrote it all, with no exceptions.



That’s just a thought, and I welcome yours.
Until next time,
blake

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