This is the question I've been asking myself lately. Am I using the Word for informative purposes or is it transforming my life? I like to listen to podcast by Mark Driscoll (highly recommend him), and was recently listening to a podcast he did on scripture. Honestly, when I began listening to this particular podcast I was expecting it to be a bit more "informative" and less in my face kind of stuff. Really not sure why I'd be thinking that to be possible, because I've never really crossed a talk from Driscoll that didn't have significant impact. He began talking about the different ways people read the Bible, more so, the different approaches people take in reading the Bible. So, why do I read the Bible? Is it an "object of information, or transformation?" Does it feed me? Does it purify, break, restore, and comfort me? Is it my sword? My ultimate Truth? Am I really living out the words I've read over and over again? Loving my neighbor? Forgiving others? Am I truly walking in the light? Or am I only partially walking in the light? These seem like pretty cliche and broad questions, but I am finding myself in a current season of apathy in my walk, and these questions are good places to jump from. So, I'm diving head first...
"Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing." James 1:21-25
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