The Book of (Your Name Goes Here)

I once had a friend jokingly tell me she admires how much I study the Bible, but maybe I need to pull my head up once and awhile and see what is going on in the world! 🙂 This was after I admitted not having a clue what Gangnam dancing was all about!

So in that spirit, I decided to watch a movie this past weekend while my man was out officiating a football game. The movie was “The Book of Eli”. Now mind you, I watched the “made for TV” version which I am certain had many curse words cut out.

Long story made very short…Eli was the possesor of the last known Bible in a post-apocolyptic world. God told him to take it to the West coast, but Eli wasn’t sure why. People he encountered knew there was something different about Eli, but they didn’t know what it was.

The Bible Eli possessed was stolen by another man who longed for it so he could control the world. He kept saying the things in the book would make him all powerful as society struggled to rebuild.

During Eli’s 30 years of traveling, he read his Bible everday and protected it with his own life. But even after it was stolen, he continued to travel to the west coast. There he found scholars trying to preserve as much knowledge as possible.

It was at this point, that Eli told the historians to go get some paper, and a lot of it. He recited the Bible word for word. In so doing, he preserved it for future generations.

You see, by this point, the Word was IN Eli, not just another book in his backpack. I found myself thinking,

“If all the Bibles suddenly disappeared, what would the world know about it based on my knowledge?” <Tweet this! 

As Christ-followers, we shouldn’t have to carry around a big ole King James to be identified with Christ. The world longs for authentic Christ-followers filled with the Word of Truth.

I really don’t like cliches, but I am going to use one here because it is so fitting. The only Bible some people will ever read is your life. And it is scriptural – “Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it.” 2 Corinthians 3:2-3 (The Message)

So next Friday night…no movie for me. I believe I’ll study God’s Word instead! If our lives are to publish God’s Word, we must first study it.

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel. Ezra 7:10