Day of Praise

We, 07/02/14, "Day of Praise"

2 Timothy 3:16 - "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness"

It's baseball season, so each morning I might look online to see how the Atlanta Braves did in their game the night before. The easiest place for me to check is ajc.com, which is the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper website. The thing is that their website's lead story is always a tragic death. It's an opportunity to pray for someone, but it's always quite depressing too. It's a reminder that the world, by its very nature, in its fallenness and brokenness and sinfulness will always lean toward putting stuff on us that saps our life and strength.

But thank you Jesus that there's another place to go online or however you can get there that pours life and strength back into us. Yes, any way that you can access Holy Scripture is a great way to renew your life and strength. As God says in today's verse in 2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable." Indeed, all scripture adds to our life, in contrast to so much in the world that subtracts.

So, as your day unfolds and you feel your strength and energy needing a boost, try opening a Bible or going to scripture online. And then read the Bible. As one deep radio voice says each day on the air, "Read the Bible; it's good for the soul."

Praise God!


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson