Don’t Read this...

Don’t read this if the bible is more of a coaster for your drink than a book.
Don’t read this if you have a bible, but don’t know where it is.
Don’t read this if you think the bible is a good book but hard to read.
Don’t read this if you think the Bible is the living Word of some dudes that like to write stories.
Wait!!!
Even if you believe the above statements read this anyways.
Picture this, it’s 11 PM on Christmas Eve, my son is 4 years old. I am putting together a Toy workshop for him. The instructions say, “Assembly required– so simple a 10 year old can do it!” I skim over the instructions some more. It also states “Please read through the instructions before beginning assembly”. Yeah right, like I have time for that! How hard can it be?
2 Hours later, I finish something that looks like the picture on the box. Why do I have all these extra parts left over? The way I see it, they forgot to include one of the parts, a 10 year old! This story may seem funny but isn’t this a great analogy for how we approach the bible? Life is the same way; we lament the lack of instructions that come with life. Yet God has given us instruction for life. It is His Word.
2 Timothy 3:16, 17 - All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
The Bible claims to be the means that God has chosen to reach out to us in human language, reveal the essence of his relational heart, and relate the good news of his redemptive plan. The Bible is a whole library that we can take with us anywhere we go. It is 66 whole books, written by many different authors. It contains history, war stories, romances, miracles and many other stories.

The Bible is the instruction manual on how we become more Christ like each and every day of our life. That the Bible is God’s love letters to us, and he wants us to know how much he loves and cares for us, and how much he truly wants us to be more like him.
Let me ask you something, how do you get to know God? You will never truly know God, you will never truly know how much God loves you, and you will never truly know all that God has in store for you by learning about God in just that way.

Do you know what two of the greatest president’s said about the Bible?

George Washington said, “It is impossible to righteously govern the world without the Bible as your guide, because without it we would be without God.”

Ronald Reagan said, “Within the covers of one single book, the Bible, are all the answers to all the problems that we face today-if we will only read and believe.”
The Bible is the bestselling book in the world year after year after year. There are many reasons people don’t read the bible, being not relevant for today seems to be the big reason for not reading it. Yet, the bible is as relevant today as it was a thousand years ago, because when you read it you will find out what the real purpose for your life is. You will find out how to treat your parents. You will find out how and what to do with your money. You will find out what to look for in a friend. You will find out exactly how much God loves you, and you will find out how to live your life the way the God wants you to. So, is all of that irrelevant, I don’t think so do you?
So, don’t read this if your life is....Ok.
Don’t read this, if you have everything figured out!
Don’t read this if your life is perfect as it is!
If you’re reading this now, “Don’t read this” doesn’t make much sense....does it? Not reading the bible doesn’t make sense to me!