As the is the new year ahead, I felt that is a great need to renewing myself for many important areas for me to develop. What i cannot lack of is the Words of God. I never be truthful to myself before that I'm not really sufficient is in His words as His words is the light of my path and the strength of my souls. C.S. Lewis said that :"Their delight in the law (words of God)is a delight in having touched firmness;like the pedestrian delights in feeling the hard road beneath his feet after a false shortcut had entangled him in a muddy fields." I know my security should be from God, and the most easiest way I know more about Him is through His words. Like Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is wr
itten therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." For a leader, from here I need to spend more time in the Word and think about it all the time. Moreover, I need to have obedience that results from such exposure to the Word which is the key to success.Carl Henry, an American theologian said that:"A satisfactory religion must satisfy. But satisfy what and why? The Greek mysteries satisfied the emotions; brute force can satisfy the will; but Christianity satisfies the intellect because it is true, and the truth is the only everlasting satisfactions."
I felt I'm small and more to study through His words in my lifetime,
therefore, this quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, become my prayer and also proclamation:
Because I am a Christian. Therefore, everyday in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scripture in no other way than hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.
Because I am a preacher of the Word, I cannot expound the scripture for others if I do not let it speak daily to me. I will misuse the Word in my office as preacher if I do not continue to meditate upon it in a prayer. If the Word has become empty for me in my daily administration, if I no longer experience it, that proves I have not let the Word speak personally, to me for a long time. I will offend against my calling if I do not seek each day in prayer the word that my Lord wants to say to me for that day."
For me, it's crucial for beginning the year with the words of God.
Let my words walk and make it counts in this brand new year, by His words accompanies.
