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A Life That Matters
| Where Everyday Life Meets Everlasting Truth - #8172 |
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| A Life That Matters - Radio Program |
Friday, December 26, 2008
Download MP3 (right click to save) We gave Noah’s Ark as a gift to our three-year old grandson. This is a good-sized wooden ark that’s got all kinds of animal passengers he can play with. My son just called and said, “Dad, you’ll never guess who was with Noah on the ark?” I couldn’t. He said, “Lightning McQueen.” That’s a race car character from a movie, and it’s also our grandson’s fascination. So now, our grandson has Lightning McQueen on the deck of Noah’s Ark, talking with the animals who are encircling him. I’m Ron Hutchcraft. Now he’s only three, but he’s doing what many of us do. He’s injecting his reality into the Bible. That’s not necessarily bad. Queen Victoria said, “When I open my Bible, Jesus Christ steps out of its pages and into my life.” Sometimes it’s that real life connection that’s missing in the way many of us read the Bible. James tells us: “Do not merely listen to the Word…do what it says.” If we just read the Bible and we don’t change anything as a result, we are the Bible says, “like a man who looks at his face in a mirror…goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like” (James 1:22-24 ). I don’t know about putting a race car on the Ark, but I do know that God wants us to find the point where our life today meets God’s Word. Reading about trials? You ask, “What trial am I going through right now?” You put that trial right into the verse. If it says “Love your neighbor as yourself”, what neighbor are you having a hard time loving? Put that name in the verse. ”Sin shall not be your master.” What sin is being your master right now? Put that in the verse. Each day you say, “What did I read today, and what am I going to do differently because I read it?” You connect God’s everlasting truth to something in your everyday life. We want to help you with that kind of practical faith at our website. Would you visit us there—ALifeThatMatters.org? This radio program references: James 1:22-24 |
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