Starting on the 25th, a month before Thanksgiving Day, I've been listing Things I'm Thankful For on my Facebook. This is today's entry...
THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR # 6—“The Abundance, and Easy Availability, of God’s Word Here in America”!! (Bear with me here, this will need a little “setting up”)!!
Okay....each morning, as part of my devotional exercises, I read TWO versions of “Our Daily Bread.” One is the version with 3 month’s worth of readings mapped out for, currently, October-December 2021. (That’s the version most are aware of). The SECOND version is the “90 Day Introductory Edition” which just goes from readings #1-90, you can read it ANY time of the year. I presently use both editions, along with DEEPER devotional material as well (and, of course, I recommend a good translation of THE BIBLE, ITSELF as the ultimate means of spiritual edification)!!
In the photo are my two versions of “Our Daily Bread” opened up side-by-side. On the left is yesterday’s reading. And on the right is TOMORROW’S reading (I read ahead on Saturdays). THEY ARE BOTH DEALING WITH THE SAME SCRIPTURE PASSAGE, though they are by different AUTHORS with slightly different PERSPECTIVES. To me, the way my mind works, it’s a reminder of how abundantly available God’s Word is to us here in America...we have an OVERFLOW of opportunities in this nation!! Not one, but TWO devotionals on an obscure passage like that one!! Let us never forget that To Whom much is given, much WILL be required, by God The GIVER of it all!!
As the celebration of The Reformation is tomorrow, let’s remember that God’s Word the Bible has NOT always been accessible to the common folk like it is to us now. And, let’s be thankful and SHOW our gratitude by using the resources we have at our disposal!! I do thank God for ALL the good materials, starting with BIBLES, that we can obtain legally and *****cheaply***** here in America!!
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