Losing the Word of God - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in 2 Kings 22:8a,

"Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, 'I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the Lord.'"

This "Book of the Law" was the Bible at its point of development by that time. It had been neglected so badly that it had been lost! Such was the state of Judah before the Lord sent the Babylonians to destroy her and take a remnant of Israelites captive. So far had they drifted from the Lord their ancestors had made a covenant with, they had lost the book that contained his very words, as well as the covenant they, as a people, had entered into with him.

How valuable might a book be that contains the very things our Creator says? How important might a book be that contains the thoughts, the actions, the intentions and agenda of the One who created us all and who maintains the cosmos we exist in? How consequential might a book be that explains where we came from, where we are going, who it was that created us and what he is like?

All this cast aside and lost! My comprehension of this is dumbfounding! Yet, this is how far Judah had drifted from her God.

How about us? How much dust does that Bible have on it as it lays on our coffee tables or sits in the bookshelf? Are we to treat God's word with the same contempt Judah had for it?

May we all bear the reverence and awe that is rightfully due the Lord from us by our intensive exploration of the Scriptures to know just who our Creator is, what he is like, his character and nature, what he is doing in the world today, what he has done in the past and what he has for us in the future. May we all know him well as he has revealed himself to us, as opposed to our own version of how we may "define" him.

We need to get our Bibles out and read today!

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!

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