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Psalm 119:27-29, 33-34, "Make me understand the way of Your precepts, that I may meditate on Your wonderful deeds. My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me and teach me your law. Teach me, LORD the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart”
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What has had the most influence in your life?  I would venture to say the majority of people in today’s society would be influenced by movie stars, professional athletes, television hosts and books written by various authors to name only a few. Have you even considered that we have at our very disposal the written Word of Life given to us by its author and our creator God? 

(1) Loren D. Esthleman said this about the Bible, “Lay chosen faith aside and read this beautifully written book.” 
(2) Madeleine L’ Engle Franklin added, “It is the foundation stone of the English language.”
(3) John Jakes urged people to read the Bible “for the magic, and the possibilities, of its English.”

Although these writers had some high praise for God’s Word, their endorsement isn’t the reason we should read His Book. The Bible merits our attention because it is God’s breathed and inspired Word of Truth and He has preserved it for us. My beloved, the God who created you and me, has given us His Book, and we need to make it our Book. By reading it, pouring over it, meditating on it, and putting into practice what it says, then we begin to know God Himself, and in the process, we fulfill for ourselves the psalmist’s quest, “I have sought Your precepts … I have seen the consummation of all perfection.”

It is the only Book that speaks of earthly things and human experiences (good and bad).  It also describes with clarity and authority areas of heaven and earth, things seen and unseen; revealing facts about God, angels, men, time and eternity, life and death; of sin; of heaven and hell. More importantly we find within its pages everything we need to know to receive salvation and have a personal relationship with God’s only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul declared in 2 Timothy 3:16 it "is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness".  It has been stated that people devote more time to learning about the Bible than in discovering its message.  After 30 years as a pastor, a New Jersey minister concluded, "The Bible is the best-selling, least-read, and least-understood book."  In his view, "Biblical illiteracy is rampant."  George Gallup, the foremost religion pollster in the United States agrees.  "We revere the Bible," he says, "but we don't read it."  We should be more like the psalmist who asked God to help him understand the way of His precepts and to increase his knowledge of God and His will. 

As a believer in Jesus Christ that should be your foremost desire.  We should prayerfully study the Scriptures to discover what God is saying to us through His Word about Himself and especially His plan for our lives. 1 Samuel 3:10 puts it this way, "Speak, for Your servant hears."  We need to be like Samuel, willing to pause in the midst of life's turmoil to hear the still voice of the Lord, and we will have this opportunity if we prayerfully read and study the Bible regularly.  You see, God's Spirit communicates to us through the precious and eternal Word of God.
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Further Reflection:

The believe the greatest cause for our neglect of the Bible is not lack of time but lack of heart.  Someone else's word is taking the place of the Word of God.  There are many good books and magazines to read; however, we must not neglect the mysteries of God's mercy, His grace and His love that are woven throughout the His Eternal Word that will change a person’s heart and life forever. I can attest to fact, the Bible, God's written Word, changes lives.  It changed my life when I accepted His Son Jesus Christ as my Savior; and you know what; if you want such a change in your life, receive Jesus Christ as your Savior.  It’s only a prayer away!  Then ask God to give you a desire and hunger  for His Word and a hunger to taste His grace and goodness each and every day.

My beloved, it’s the only Book that will bless you while you're still in this world, and will show you that through faith in Jesus Christ you can be sure of eternal blessedness in God’s eternal kingdom.  Thomas A. Kempis (1379-1471) summed it up well when he wrote, "Blessed indeed are those ears which listen not for the voice sounding without, but for the truth teaching inwardly.  Blessed are the eyes that are shut to outward things but intent on things inward.  Blessed are they who are glad to have time to spare for God, and who shake off all worldly hindrances.  Consider these things, O my soul, and hear when the Lord your God speaks."
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Closing thoughts:

For those who aren’t saved, what are your reasons for living?  The way you live reveals your real reason for living. Actions really do speak louder than words. Take a look at your life and evaluate where your energies are being spent. Are you living to have fun? Get smart? Work hard? Love people? Please God? Do your responses to the following questions support your answers above? How do you spend your time? Do you know God’s Word? Are you living in obedience to God? If not, why not? To what are you looking for satisfaction? What are you doing that has eternal benefits? If these questions make you uncomfortable, maybe you need to recognize the waste of living for anything less than God’s intended purpose.

If you’ve never taken the first crucial step of trusting Jesus Christ to rescue you from God’s judgment against sin, accept His offer of forgiveness right now. He will forgive, and He will give you a new heart and a new purpose and reason for living (John 3:16; Romans 5:8 ). Ask Him to help you make the most of the new life He’s given you. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

For those who have been saved by the precious blood of Christ, how long has it been since you've asked the Lord to make your heart receptive to His Word?  He longs to hear you say, “Speak Lord, I’m listening.”
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God’s love is both tough and tender.

Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints”

2 Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”
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Do you like continued stories? If you’re watching a television program for half an hour, and you come to the place where the hero plunges into the water to rescue his drowning sweetheart. Then you’re left hanging in the air with the words, “To be continued.” Oh, how disappointing!

However, there is quite a different response to the inscription on the headstone of a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. The inscription would read “To Be Continued Above”!  Yes, this life is just the first chapter of the book of a person’s life. Whether that chapter is long or short, it’s not the end, but it’s to be continued. For the believer in Christ, it will be continued in heaven with our Lord.

There isn’t any break between the chapters and you don’t have to wait till next month’s installment or tune in next week to hear the concluding episode. Chapter two follows chapter one without interruption. It is continued immediately, for “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” ( 2 Corinthians 5:8 ). So, what will the next chapter be for you? It will be written sooner or later, either in heaven or in hell. Remember, when your time comes to die, that isn’t the end, like many people believe. Your story is “to be continued” – but the question then remains, where?
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Further thoughts:

The story has been told about a woman whose mother went home to be with the Lord. She was very much loved and a blessing to everyone who met her. The mother’s seven-year old son expressed his great love and admiration for his grandmother and remarked with childish glee, “I’ll bet Jesus was glad to see Grandma!”

I whole heartily agree. I’m quite sure the Lord welcomes home all whom He has redeemed by His blood on the cross of Calvary. When we think about the death of a believer in Christ, our minds are usually taken up with the joy that a believer must experience when they first see the One who saved them. What a thrill to behold Christ for the first time! Yes, we’ll be happy to see Christ, but He who loved the church so much that He gave His life for her surely rejoices each time one of His redeemed one arrives home.

I’m confident that when we who have trusted Him as Lord and Savior pass through the gates of glory, our Redeemer will find great satisfaction in receiving us into His presence. So, if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, whether you are facing death yourself or are grieving over the loss of a loved one, think of that boy’s words, “I'll bet Jesus was glad to see Grandma.” I’m also sure He will be glad to see you too!”

Christ conquered death and broke its power,
By rising from the grave;
Eternal life He gives to all,
Who trust in Him to save - Sper
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Death is the last chapter of time, but the first chapter of eternity.

Jeremiah 17:9, "The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is”?

Romans 5:8, “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”
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God didn’t love us because we loved Him. There is nothing in the heart and life of a sinner to attract the heart of God. Absolutely nothing! But to the contrary, everything to repel Him. The heart is sinful, depraved, a mass of corruption, with “no good thing” inside. That’s why this truth makes Salvation the wonderful thing that it is.  God loving ME!  Wow!!!

Human hearts are naturally: (1) Evil,  Hebrews 3:12; (2) Wicked, Jeremiah 17:9; (3) Weak, Ezekiel 16:30; (4) Double, Psalm 12:2; (5) Hard, Ezekiel 3:7; (6) Stony, Ezekiel 11:19; (7) Haughty, Proverbs 18:12; ( 8 ) Proud, Proverbs 21:4; ( 8 ) Perverse, Proverbs 12:8; and (9) Foolish, Romans 1:21

God can make the heart: (1) Clean, Psalm 51:10; (2) Good, Luke 8:15; (3) Faithful, Nehemiah 9:8; (4) Honest, Luke 8:15; (5) Soft, Job 23:16; (6) New, Ezekiel 18:31; (7) Tender, Ephesians 4:32; ( 8 ) Pure, Matthew 5:8; (9) Perfect, 1 Chronicles 29:9; and (10) Wise, Proverbs 11:29.
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Closing thoughts:

From a human perspective, many people may be described as “good.” However, God sees the spiritual foolishness, disobedience, blindness, selfishness, and hate that lie deep within our heart. We might not want to admit it, but we all have a heart problem; however, this isn’t about the physical heart, but the spiritual heart. Jeremiah, a prophet of the Lord told us of the inner heart, that spiritual part of our being (Jeremiah 17:9-10). He pinpoints what experts cannot quite understand about the nature of sin.

While men through education, legislation, penalization, dictatorships and democracies have all failed the picture isn’t all dark. While man cannot remedy his situation concerning sin, God has provided the only solution.  It’s a new creation and spiritual rebirth! When a sinner comes to trust Jesus Christ as Savior that person receives a new nature and a changed heart, and becomes a partaker of the very nature of God (2 Peter 1:4), wherein the Spirit of God comes into that person, equipping them for a new life (Colossians 3:10). The question then remains:

(1) Have you received a new nature and changed heart?

(2) If not, it is my sincere desire to extend to you, if you don’t know Jesus Christ as Savior, an invitation to come to Him and drink freely from the soul-satisfying living water of life that only Jesus can provide.

My friend, only Jesus Christ can satisfy the deep longings of your heart. Believe what the Bible says about who He is and what He has done. Read John 3:16 and put your name in it. Then accept Jesus’ offer of forgiveness and eternal life and receive Him as your Savior, and He will give you and new and changed heart.
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God’s gift of salvation is free, but it’s not yours until you ask for and accept it.

Job 6:14, "To him who is afflicted, kindness should be shown by his friend"
Proverbs 17:17, "A friend loves at all times"
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The word friend is defined as "one attached to another by affection, regard, or esteem; an intimate acquaintance." All of us need at least one or two close friends. A small boy defined a friend as "someone who knows all about you and likes you just the same." A friend is one to whom we can tell everything and who will never betray a confidence. A friend will not say anything that will injure you. A friend is one in whose presence we can be ourselves without the fear of being misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson said this of a friend, "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." Samuel Johnston said, "True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."

I don't know about you, but, whenever I read the story of the paralyzed man who was healed by Jesus, I think about his friends, who cared enough about this man to bring him to Jesus so he could be healed (Luke 5:17-26). Have you ever been in a situation where you needed friends to help you? Maybe your car needed some minor repairs. Or there was a time when you needed some help in moving to your new apartment. Looking back on my own life, I can remember numerous times when I needed a helping hand, and my friends, those who knew Jesus as their Savior and those who didn’t came to my rescue. During those times, it gave me an opportunity to share my faith about Jesus with those who didn’t know Him.
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Closing thoughts:

Our world has so many people who need just one friend to change their life. Solomon wrote in Proverbs 17:17, "A friend loves at all times." We cannot improve on that definition. The support and encouragement that only an intimate friend can offer is sorely needed when the burdens of life weight heavily upon us. My thoughts were of the apostle Paul who was locked in a damp Roman dungeon, awaiting execution.

He couldn’t help but feel hurt that many former friends had deserted him. Oh, how grateful he was for the friendship of Onesiphorus! This man left his family and an active ministry in Ephesus to befriend Paul. When he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently to find where Paul was imprisoned (2 Timothy 1:17). And he courageously visited the apostle again and again.

Paul said of Onesiphorus, “He often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain”. What a wonderful gift we can give by standing faithfully with a friend in need! There are enough people to go around so that everyone can have friends. Simply put, a true friend will help you keep going when you feel like giving up. A friend is one in whose presence we can be ourselves without the fear of being misunderstood. That person will not talk behind our back but is one to whom we can bare the secrets of our heart, knowing that we will not be betrayed. Such a friend is Jesus Christ, the One who perfectly fulfills Solomon’s words, “A friend loves at all times” (Proverbs 17:17).

(1) Whose hand can you strengthen today by being a friend?
(2) Do you have a friend in need? 
(3) If so, think of ways you can help that person!
(4) Above all else please show the love of Christ and share the gospel.
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The best friends are like Jesus – they stick with you.

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