The Divine Crash

I love books, I have hundreds of them.  Some are new, some are old, some are antiques.  Recently someone gave me a collection of books that were in their house being used as insulation.  Turns out those books were King James Bibles printed in England in the late 17th Century.  That aren’t in the best condition but as far as I am concerned they are priceless.  I also have a book from 1835 original printing from Scotland called “Messiah the Prince.”  I bought it at a used book sale for 25 cents.  However, I have at least a few books that I haven’t read yet and a few books that I only use as reference.

How often do we treat God like that bookshelf?  Where we treasure it deeply and would be devastated without it but most of the books get ignored on a regular basis.  Only going to them when the books can offer us something.

We even decorate the outside of the bookshelves to draw attention to it.

Unfortunately these books don’t help because they just sit there.

When we let our relationship with God just sit there, it grows stagnate and doesn’t help.

Recently I have been trying to read my Bible everyday, I have noticed that when I read it my relationship with God grows and I want to read more.  When I don’t read it my relationship stalls and I don’t want to read it.

When I treat my relationship with God like my bookshelf I lose the desire to have the relationship but when I am active in my relationship with God I desire more of it.

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