Seven (7) Reasons Why You Should Read the Bible

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Young Men and Women, Consider the Preciousness of Jesus

“Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious…”
(1 Peter 2:7, NKJV)

In his youth of 16-year-old, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, my hero and celebrated preacher, preached his first sermon from this verse. Could he have chosen a verse more wonderful and limitless to a lover of Christ?

Jesus was precious to the Father. “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy,” was the Father’s testimony at Jesus’ baptism (Matthew 3:17). He was inexpressibly dear to His Father. Oswald Sanders writes, “Everything in His walk from Bethlehem to Calvary gave Him infinite delight.” Wow!

Since this is so, it is little wonder that Jesus is precious to the believer. It should be noted that here the word “precious” in New King James Version is a noun, not an adjective. It could be better rendered: “To you who believe, He is the preciousness,” that is, preciousness itself. An adjective can be increase or decrease, but a noun constant. To the believer He is the essence of all preciousness.

All the most precious things are hid in Him – in Him “lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3); and “all the fullness of God in a human body” (Colossians 2:9 or in him dwells all the completeness of the Godhead bodily). We may lose any of earth’s precious things, but we can never lose Jesus, our priceless treasure. Even death serves only to bring Him nearer. He is a jewel of which neither Satan nor Death can rob us. Heat can destroy even a diamond, but the fiercest heat of trial cannot separate the believer from Jesus! He shares our sorrows, lightens our loads, and doubles our joys.

Jesus is the cornerstone of our faith (1 Peter 2:4). He is precious as Saviour. He not only saves us from our sin but shares His own life with us. Should this not make Him inexpressibly precious to us? It is when we are in deepest need that we most appreciate His preciousness. He is the complement to our every need. Charles H. Spurgeon speaks about Jesus’ preciousness in a hymn:

What the hand is to the lute,

What the breath is to the flute,

What is fragrance to the smell,

What the spring is to the well,

What the flower is to the bee,

That is Jesus Christ to me.

What the mother to the child,

What the guide in pathless wild,

What is oil to troubled wave,

What is ransom to the slave,

What is water to the sea,

That is Jesus Christ to me.

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Letters to Annie: Be Still and Wait for God's Voice (Sometime I Reflect on Us)

Dear Annie,

            I miss you so much. When I first looked at you few years ago, I barely know you. You looked so innocent and I’m, well, so casual. There was no serious conversations, no proper ‘hi,’ always in the distance. What weird is that I can’t barely looked you in the eyes. By all mean, we tried to avoid eye-contact. But then, everything was just normal. Never crossed my mind that we will be together like this. Funny, now I can’t even remember any time when I didn’t even think of you. When I be still, reflecting… I thanks God for every moments I have with you. Why I didn’t get to know you early in my life? Thankfully, God’s plan is good.

            I think that is how God want us to think and know Him also. Psalms 46:10 instructs, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Be still. Funny how the Bible teaches that a wonderful way to get to know God is simply to be still and listen to Him not in rush and noisy ways. “Deepest communion with God is beyond words,” writes Madeleine L’Engle, “on the other side of silence.” You know, when I’m in silence and solitude I can reflect many blessings that God had given me (that include you, my dear). I also can hear His deep small voice for guidance and instruction. Isn’t this is what you want from God?

            As you know, the demands of everyday life weigh down upon us. Because of our working loads and everyday responsibilities, we can easily be tempted to ignore God’s presence or – worse yet – to rebel against His commandments. But, when we quiet ourselves and acknowledge His presence, God touches our hearts, restores our spirits, and help us to think and see things in God’s perspective. If we want to get to know our Heavenly Father more, silence is a wonderful place to start.

            It’s not about where we are physically but it’s about the position of our hearts. As illustration, I can think of you even in the midst of busy traffic or in the noise of conversations.  My heart belongs to you. In the same way – even more – we can hear God speaks to us anytime if our hearts focusing on Him. Let’s be in silence and solitude with God more often. Let’s go to a quiet place and listen (You may want to find a place for you to have a quiet time). It’s good for our souls and relationship with God and one another. If we keep listening long enough and carefully enough, He’ll start talking.

Annie, I write this letter not as much as I want to teach you,

But it was you who reminds me about silence and solitude.

To be patient and wait upon the Lord.

You wrote to me, “I will wait for God’s voice…

…so I will follow His voice.”

Yes darling, let us be still, and know that God is God.

I want to marry you,

Richard

P.s.: I love you!

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Jesus, Immanuel: God with Us

He could have given up. No one would have known otherwise. Jesus could have given up. One look at the womb could have discouraged Him. God is unbridled as the air and limitless as the sky. Would He reduce His world to the belly of a girl for nine months?

And nine months? There is another reason to quit. Heaven has no months. Heaven has no time. Or, perhaps better said, heaven has all the time. It’s we who are running out. Ours passes so quickly that we measure it by the second. Wouldn’t Christ rather stay on the other side of the ridge of time?...

And the stable. Is that not yet another reason for Christ to back out? Stables are smelly, dirty. Stables have no linoleum floors or oxygen tanks. How are they going to cut the umbilical cord? And who is going to cut the umbilical cord? Joseph? A small-time carpenter from a one-camel town? Is there not a better father for God? Someone with an education, a pedigree. Someone with a bit of clout? This fellow couldn’t even swing a room at the hotel. You think he’s got what it takes to be the father to the Master of the universe?...

Jesus could have given up. Imagine the change He had to make, the distance He had to travel. What would it be like to become flesh?

Love goes the distance… and Christ travelled from limitless eternity to be confined by time in order to become one of us. He didn’t have to. He could have given up. At any step along the way He could have called it quits… He didn’t, because He is love. And “love… endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). He endured the distance. What’s more, He endured the resistance. “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory” (John 1:14).
[From A Love Worth Giving by Max Lucado]

Jesus, Immanuel.
God with us.

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