Part 2: God's Word (familiarity series)

What’s my second battle of familiar belittlement I wish to fight? The crazy opportunity that we take for granted every day, and that is God’s word. When was the last time you read your bible? No judging from me, it’s been a couple days for me. Not only that, but when you read your bible is it out of obligation or desire? Do you want to read your bible, is it a deep thirst to hear, or read more specifically, the words of God? We take this honor and privilege for granted, every. Single. Day. Wycliffe Bible Translators estimate that 180million people do not have the Bible in their language, 180 million people. These people are left without knowledge of God’s love or his promises you have the opportunity to know. Does that really sink in? For me, it didn’t really sink in; it still hasn’t really sunk in. All I know is this, we all have the opportunity that 180million people are denied every single day. So next time you choose to do something else instead of reading God’s word, contemplate your familiar denying of an everyday grace given to you by God. May you thirst for this opportunity on a daily basis.