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It Is Written

by Jerry Ousley  
9/20/2008 / Christian Living

Some people hate to write. Me? I love it. For some reason nothing seems to make me happier than when I am at the keyboard writing. I don't get time to do it as much as I'd like to but then, that's life. Did you ever wonder why we write things down? I've found out that it's the best way to keep from forgetting something I need to remember . . . if I can just remember where I put that piece of paper I wrote it down on. But now I write it down in my PDA which provides an alarm that won't let me forget.

Writing can be a challenge. I remember those writing assignments from school when you were told to write three pages on a certain topic, or in high school days it was a thousand words. If you're like me you tried every trick in the book to fill those pages or come up with those words. Now I limit myself to a certain number of words and find it hard to say everything I want to say without going over the limit. Strange isn't it?

The words, "It is written" are found in the Bible three hundred and eleven times. That's amazing to me. But then having it written down is very important because it provides a reminder of something God doesn't want us to forget. It gives a clear account of something that took place and it keeps the story factual and in context. The written word is extremely important.

I talk a lot about the Bible and the importance of reading it. Many of us don't really like to read for various reasons but I can't emphasis enough how necessary it is to read God's Word. When I see people taking it lightly it hurts my heart. Why? Because of all the literal blood, sweat, and tears that went into writing the Bible. We call it God's Word and indeed it is. God gave the inspiration to men for the Bible. He told them to write. The book we call the Bible today took fifteen hundred years to write. It is penned by nearly forty authors all under the inspiration of God. It's a miracle that we have thirty-nine books written by nearly forty authors and it doesn't contradict itself. You put forty writers in a room today and try to get them to agree on something and, well, you've got quite a chore on your hands. It had to be a miracle and it had to come from God.

Another thing that humbles me when I look at a Bible is how people suffered to get it interpreted in languages that the common man or woman can read. For many years it was only in Latin a language not even spoken by a nation for hundreds of years. Only the very well educated could read it. They also were the ones interpreting it. Dishonest men used this to control people. They could get them to believe anything by saying that it was in the Bible (and they did). Some honest people felt inspired by God to interpret it into a language that everyone understood. It cost them their lives. They were literally tortured, burned at stakes and persecuted just because they wanted others to know what God wanted them to know. That's what happens when you get into the pockets of thieves and destroy the lies of control freaks.

When I pick up a Bible today I remember these things. I think about what it cost to put this book in my hands so I could have the opportunity to know what God wanted me to know. I guess that's why I emphasis it so much; I know that God wants you to know it too.

Yet today we have those who take advantage of the fact that most Christians don't read their Bibles like they should. They use these opportunities to make others believe what they want them to believe and unless we know what the Word says we'll just go along with them thinking that they know what they're talking about. They do but not like what you might think. There are many today who exploit the Bible in order to line their pockets with wealth. But I want to tell you that God wants His word freely spoken and read. We have such an opportunity if we'll only realize it and take advantage of it. Jesus wanted you to know about it; that's why He said, "It is written."

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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