If the Bible does what it claims, then reading it and interacting with it should be the most important activity I am ever involved in.

Can you imagine having a direct line to God to find out what He thinks about every kind of situation with which you might come into contact? We can actually find out how God wants us to react to every situation under the sun. We can know how we should spend our money and what kind of person we should marry and how to raise our kids and what to do when someone hates us and what to say when our friends' home got flooded. Oh, we can also read about how we can know the Creator of the universe. And not only that, but as Mike Glenn (Pastor of Brentwood Baptist) reminded me this week, the Bible is the only book where as you are reading it, you can literally ask the author what He meant when He said what He did.

Why do we all neglect this book so much? (Christians and non-Christians!) If we really wanted to hear from God and honor Him and know His will, don't you think we would give great energy and time and focus on knowing, understanding, and doing the Bible?

I'm wanting to have a strong desire again for the "pure milk of the word," just like a baby screams and longs for his milk for nourishment.

Jacob