Search the Scriptures

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: - John 5.39

No matter how many times I remind myself, or write it on a sticky note or write it somewhere in my diary I still need to see it, hear it, and DO IT...

READ MORE BIBLE!!! Any time... any where... all the time... everywhere!!! Which to me just simply means “at every opportunity.”

The Bible is not OBSOLETE... rather, the Bible is ABSOLUTE!!!  So we can read it and think about it and search out every part of it that God is using to speak to our heart.

Be encouraged to follow those thoughts out wherever God leads your thinking through the Word, until you think you’ve exhausted it... I find that I am exhausted – in a good way – but God’s Word speaking to me, searching me out, helping me, blessing me-  is never exhausted!

So, read, and think and search and wait and watch... and we can keep this acronym  for “SEARCH…” in mind as we enjoy getting into the Bible:

Seriously- “reasoned with them out of the scriptures” Acts 17:2-4, 2 Tm 2:15

Earnestly- “Thy word have I hid in mine heart” Psalm 119:11, Joshua 1.8

Anxiously- “that ye may believe” John 20: 31, Psalm 119:9

Regularly- “daily” Acts 17:11, “day and night” Psalm 1:2

Carefully- “in all the scriptures” Luke 24:27, 2 Tm 3:16 (15)

Humbly- “Then opened he their understanding”  Luke 24: 45, James 1:22

Run with patience,

Pastor Tottingham