Day 72- Being a witness!

Hey guys,

   I don't know if you can relate, but for a really long time, I didn't read my bible because I just simply thought, what's the point? These are stories from like a million years ago, and letters some guys wrote to churches also like a million years ago, are they really still applicable to my life today? THE ANSWER IS YES. For about a year and a half now, I have been reading my bible, and I have been so amazed. Not only have friends been able to come to me with real, HARD problems, but I knew exactly what to say, and what scripture verses to show them, and what traits of God that he shows in the bible to remind them of. How awesome is that? I have actually ENJOYED reading the bible! For those of you like me who truly think it's either not applicable to the "modern" life, or that you won't be able to understand it, PRAY. Pray that God will use his word to speak to you, and don't get overwhelmed. Obviously, the bible's a pretty big, and pretty important book, so don't let it scare you off. I started with reading the "classic" bible stories, and yes, if you grew up in the church, I KNOW you've heard them about a million and five times, but reading it, I picked up some stuff that I had never, EVER picked up before, which made me think, hey, maybe God's word is more important than I thought. I can tell you right now, IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!! The word of God should be and is supposed to be our daily bread, it is supposed to be the guidelines by which we live our lives, it's essentially a self-help book for every problem that you could ever DREAM of having. We have this awesome book at our disposal, why not use it? God didn't just plop us down in a forest somewhere and said "go and multiply", NO! He equipped us with tools to use to go about our daily lives, and do you know what the biggest tool he gives us is? That's right, the BIBLE! The Bible is actually God's WORD, spoken either directly or indirectly, and who are we to say, yeah, I don't think I really NEED the word of God...I think I'll read Twilight instead! YOU. NEED. IT!!!! God is God, he flipping created you! Don't you think he would probably have a few words of wisdom for ya?

<3 always,
Rose