As a child there were two major challenges with P.J. besides the obvious. The first was getting her to eat meat, she thought that(and still thinks) macaroni and cheese was a full meal. You could happily feed her with macaroni and cheese and then follow up with dessert. Ravioli was okay, spaghetti o's was alright and so on, but no meat by itself. Then we discovered something by accident, the kid loves ketchup. So from that point on any meat has been okay so long as there is ketchup. If she likes it a dab will do, if she doesn't like it she will submerse it in the stuff.
The second thing was medicine, we could not get medicine down her for nothing. We would buy the bubble gum flavored, cherry flavored, we tried it all she wouldn't do it. But, if you watered it down she was fine with it and would take it right down without a problem at all.
The Word of God is completely different but we do need to do some things when we red it to help us out. We can't dump ketchup on it obviously and we don't want to water it down at all because that is very dangerous. We need to sit down to read it and make sure that it applies to our lives. There is not one piece of the BIble that does not point us to the cross, and its' saving grace, there is also not a piece of the Bible that we cannot take and apply to our own lives in the past, present or in the future it is all useful.
Psalm 105:19 Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
God's word when analyzed correctly will be a lamp to help your steps and a light to reveal your path. It's so important that we read God's word, asking ourselves a few questions.
1. is there an insight in this passage?
2. Is there a command or principle in this passage?
3. Is there a promise in this passage?
4. How can I apply this to my life?
If you ask yourself these questions you will see that all scripture is fully applicable to your life in some fashion.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!
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