On My Way To Heaven

My heart longs for the Word, the very Word of God spoken to us in the Holy Scriptures…Just as a lover reads a letter from a far away land…I long to read and read again  the same line, folding it, keeping it in a safe place. Catching myself muttering it, chewing it, making it mine.

An open Bible on the kitchen table, a little notebook with Living Words in my purse. A memory song, I am breathless…it helps me fight.

I open it, and inhale eternal words; the Holy Spirit revealing my sin, it is a mirror of the soul; and at the same time, it is the only place where it says that those sins of mine have been cast out…they have been thrown into the depths of the sea.Now I am wearing white.

It is more than reading, than passing my eyes through the words…it is about falling in love with each of them. It is about meditating on them, eating them, slowly. No rush to finish in a year.

My teacher J.C. Ryle says:

“By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live in comfort and how to die in peace”

So we enjoy the reding of the Word in our home. We honor it. We meditate on the words that are like medicine, that heal our souls, that can make us wise unto salvation. Its about eternal life.

No rush, let the clock stop. It’s just Us…The Holy Spirit, the Living Word and I.

Moving beyond just reading the Word…is to fall in love with it.

Let your Word change me, transform me, O Lord!

How readest thou?

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