What is the legacy of God's Word in your family?

We live in times where God is "respected" but not "revered"; where people trust in the supernatural but not the supernatural God of Scriptures; where feelings outweigh faith; hope has been usurped by hopelessness; where religious devotion is practiced more like a picnic than the knee-knocking, heart-pricking experience of Scripture. 

Q) What practices have you exampled in your home regarding God's Word? 

Q) Have you carved time into your busy schedule and spent time in God's Word together? 

Q) Did your actions help pass down the legacy of God's Word? 

Throughout my years of attending worship, Bible study, and having the unique privilege of leading teens to closer to Christ at our families home church. God be praised through the youth ministry we were able to encourage 50-60 teens every Sunday morning. Churches currently have a consistent low turn out for Bible study. The most common excuse is I don't really get anything out of Bible study. I used that excuse all of the time, but now struggle with it.  We have a serious problem if we get nothing out of it! 


Stay in God's Word
You can NOT separate God from His Word. He is the Word. God's Word which is Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ transforms us into His image as it replaces the deception in our hearts. 

John 1:1-4 (NIV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning.³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

God's Word was so revealed that we might, through diligent study, understand it:

We can know the truth (John. 8:22). 

We can understand Paul's knowledge of the mystery (Eph 3:3-4).

We are to study to be approved (2 Tim. 2:15). 

We are to give attendance unto reading (1 Tim. 4:13).

We can train ourselves to distinguish between good and evil ( Hebrews 5:14)

It is my opinion that every believer including called workers are students of Jesus Christ, until God calls us home. We should be encouraging each other to be more responsible and responsive in meditating on God's Word daily. 

Job wrote (Job 23:12) that he “treasured the words of [God], more than my portion of food.” 1 Timothy 3:8 tells us that “godliness is of value in every way,” and such godliness is only attainable through God’s Word (2 Cor. 3:18). 1 Peter 1:3 explains that God’s power “has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us,” such knowledge only being available through the Bible.

Not intending to be rude, and leaving room for God's grace, believers need to be cautious about their personal laziness, and excuses when it comes to the lack of giving attention to God's Word.  Year after year most  Christians may attend weekly worship or Bible study "like a dead fish" and then complain, "I don't get anything out of it." 

Q) What kind of an effort did you honestly make? 

Q Where is the reverence for God's Word? 

Without the help of God's Holy Spirit believers may live in the continual state of confusion that their such unjustified criticisms seem justified to them. It seems to me that we need to exercise care, yet still  increase the importance of daily use of God's Word in our families homes. We men need to set the example for those God has entrusted to us to care for. Above all, let us each do everything possible to enhance the effectiveness of  God's Kingdom work together.

1 Peter 1:3-11

3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

10Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Stay in God's Word and add to your faith through the means of grace!