What Does Your Bible Say About Your Life?

Recently, I’ve been noticing how much people, not just anyone, but professing Christians, seem to dismiss the necessity of actually reading the Bible themselves on a regular basis. This is troubling to me because I can’t imagine who I would be today if it weren’t for all the time I’ve spent reading the Bible.

True Story Ahead

My Bible is falling apart. I mean literally, it’s falling apart. I rarely take it out of my house anymore because I don’t want to risk losing pages of this incredible book that marks my life’s journey for the last 17 years.

I’ve had family and friends suggest I send it away to get a new binding, but there’s no way I’m letting this book out of my possession. It’s too valuable to me.

You see, every single time I read my Bible, the Author reaches right into my life and touches me. The Author is the one and only Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are a powerful threesome who pack a punch in Their Word.

Every time I open the Bible, I’m opening up my life to the One who created me and saved me. I can’t imagine not reading His words myself.

Streams in the Desert

Today, I re-read the November 4 devotional in Streams in the Desert, my favorite devotional book, which I’ve read through at least six times. This is another book, I value, and will always hold dear because I’ve been through some difficulties in life. I’m encouraged each time I read these devotionals written so long ago from my sisters and brothers in Christ who also had difficulties in life. They always point me to Jesus and His Word.

Today’s message particularly spoke to me:

“A person who has experienced great difficulties will not be easily parted from his Bible.”

I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

As I look at my tattered Bible, I see all the annotated notes, underlines, and dates scribbled in the margins, along with post-it notes galore. I see the loose and crumpled paper where the most precious words are written, and I know if my Bible were not falling apart, I’d be falling apart.

In fact, there have been numerous times in the last 17 years where I was desperate, filled with despair, even depressed a few times, and I was struggling to figure out the path forward through great difficulties. When I’d open my Bible and let the Author speak His words to me, my heart would stop racing, my mind would calm down and focus, and my heart and soul would find peace.

It didn’t matter that my life circumstance hadn’t changed or that I still had to face the difficult pain I was going through. I knew I wasn’t alone. I also knew I had the greatest help I’d ever find anywhere. Every. Single. Time. God has shown up when I open my Bible. He instructs me, gives me strength, comfort, and peace through life difficulties. My help has always come from the Lord.

The notes and dates marked all over my Bible are evidence of God Himself connecting directly with me through His word right smack into my day, my circumstances, and my needs. They are great reminders of His faithfulness to me and my transformation.

Day by day, week after week, each month, every single year, for 17 years this Bible has helped me to not fall apart through life’s difficulties.

I’d rather my Bible fall apart, than me.

Many times, I’ve heard others say that you can tell what someone values and places priority in their life by looking at their checkbook to see where they spend their money.

Have you ever thought that we can tell a lot about a person by looking at their Bible?

I hope when others sees my Bible, they see something and Someone I treasure with my whole heart.

What does your Bible say about your life?