Today’s post is inspired from a quote from Dave Hunt of the Berean Call.
Search the Scriptures Daily Program #3701d.
The article isn’t based around the quote, it just happened to catch my eye and that’s how many posts are inspired.
You are wonderfully manufactured.
What happens when an appliance or electronic goes haywire? Do you throw it out? Well you might but it doesn’t get fixed that way and if it’s really valuable and has a lot of worth you don’t throw it out.
All of us as God’s creation has so much worth, that while we were still sinners, He sent His Son, God in the flesh, to die for us.
Romans 5:8 – 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Why?
His Love! It’s about Him loving us. It’s not about us and how cute, adorable, and loveable we are, it’s about a loving God!
When you’re broken, haywire, and not functioning right, where should we be looking to get you fixed?
Some human study on psychological babble? If we’re all haywire from sin, do we really expect to have someone else’s haywire ideas to fix us? My guess is no and when I look around at what’s happening in today’s society, I’m sticking with no.
You need the Manufacturer’s Handbook! It was inspired by the same Manufacturer that made you. So now if the person helping you is getting his directions from the handbook, you now have a great chance of getting fixed. The difference between a refrigerator and a human is that the human has to agree to accept the fixing.
God’s Word is a Living Word.
Psalm 119:105 – 105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
The only one who can repair the malfunctioning creation, is the Creator. He gave us His handbook. That is how we get repaired.
Why is there so much disarray in the world? Most people can’t even tell you the names of the first book in the bible, last book of the bible, or the four Gospels. Never mind what the content says, they can’t even name the books.
Jesus is the Word, Jesus is Life, and Jesus is the Light.
John 1:1-5 – 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. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
God has shared the Manufacturer’s Handbook with us. The way we get repaired is by reading it and choosing to obey the directions.
Don’t stand in front of God someday and explain that you didn’t have time to read His love letter to us. Make it your goal to read it from front to back as soon as you can. The one year Bible is a great tool to get this done and read more than one segment a day so that you don’t quit before your done.