Around 90% of my posts start out being of the “Quick Thought” variety… but as I start to think and write about the Lord and the Bible and the Christian life, the post invariably expands (and expands, and expands 🙂 ) to the point that I have to remove “Quick Thought” from the title.

Too funny.

To be sure, the Bible is a bubbling brook, brimming over in our brain if we simply let it… “LIVING and ACTIVE” indeed!

• “The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.” (Proverbs 18:4)
• “but whoever drinks of the water that I [Jesus] shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” (John 4:14)
• “In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred up the water…” (John 5:3)  [NOTE:  This should be our approach and anticipation and attitude vis-a-vis the Bible!  These days, instead of those diseases it’s usually emotional, relational, and certainly spiritual sickness we need to be cured within us; instead of an angel it’s the Holy Spirit; instead of “certain seasons” it’s “in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2), i.e., all  of the time; and instead of literal water it’s the metaphorical water of the Word of God, the Bible!]
• “And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message [BIBLE!], you accepted it n ot as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God [BIBLE!], which also performs its work in you who believe.” (1 Thessalonians 2:13)
• “… the living and abiding word of God.” (1 Peter 1:23)  [As I like to say, 1 Peter 1:23 is as easy as 1-2-3 🙂 , i.e., the Bible is transforming and eternal!]
• “For the word of God is living and active…” (Hebrews 4:12)

Amen to that!

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