Tuesday, October 6, 2009

"Satan is a failed Bible student...."

Its tuesday, and that means NEXUS! nexus is the young adults bible study that meets every tuesday night to fellowship and study various aspects of the Bible. Lately we have been going through the "3 S's" and this week the "S" was scripture. We broke up into groups and were given a long list of verses to read that explained what scripture was and we proceeded to discuss these as best we could.
Now, i fully understand what scripture is and why it is so important, but i fail like many other christians to read my Bible consistently. Its honestly quite sad and something that i am really ashamed of. Its so easy to just pick it up even for 15 min to read something that has been God breathed. But do i even do that?... most of the time i do not and instead fill my free time with facebook or emails and skype. Something hit me greatly in a verse that we read in Matthew when satan is trying to tempt Jesus and the sheet that we were working from pointed out that we can't be a better bible student than satan if we ourselves do not study the word.
The fact that satan knows the Bible and possibly more than me is really scary...satan knew the word and was able to twist for his own purposes which makes him a "poor bible student" but at the same time he had to know what the Bible said in order to twist it....im not sure i even have that depth of knowledge about the word....
How am i supposed to fight false preachings that are steered up by satan if i myself do not read the word for the real meaning. This was a concept that i've always heard and knew "to know the word because it is God's way of communicating to us and gives us knowledge about false teachings" but i don't think this other aspect has ever hit me before.
I'm going to try to make a much greater effort to read God's word even if its only just for 15min a day. I believe i am even going to have to only let myself onto facebook if i have done my Bible reading for the day...very childish i know, but i think this is a good starting place!

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