Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Faded or Worn?

I saw a Bible today (in the lost and found no less!) that was faded on the cover. It looked so old and worn i thought "wow". But after i looked the pages were crisp and seldom used. I remember my dad having a Bible that he had to get duct tape and tape it up because the pages were falling out. One Bible was faded from sitting in the sun and the other was worn from use. I wonder if that says anything about the person it belongs to? We live in a country where the Word of God is plentiful, and we could care less. A Bible is not valuable to us, most of us have more than one. In China Christians share one page of the scriptures and trade with others when they memorize that page. They hungrily look forward to the scripture and what God wants to teach them through it, we hungrily look forward to lunch as we stuff the Bible back in the dash of our vehicle. God wrote us a book and wants to reveal who He is and what He has done. Is your bible faded or worn?