Quiet Time — Part 1
“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18).
When we get saved we need to grow in our new faith in Christ. To do this, it is important to establish a quiet time. By “quiet time” I mean getting alone with God and His Word. In the hustle and bustle of modern life, we sometimes find it easy to live our lives with little or no regard for the God who saved us — or for His Word. The Bible is the revelation of God’s mind to you. It’s what He wants you to know and do. Not only did God give His Son — the Living Word — to save you, He gave His Book — the Written Word — to guide you. Many people own a Bible, but they never read it. For many people, it’s an out-of-date book, good for their grandparents but not for them. Someone has said that if everyone blew the dust from their unused Bibles simultaneously, we’d all be killed in the dust storm. To be sure, some sections of the Bible are difficult to understand, and some are not as exciting as others. Once John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, said something like this: “I have sometimes seen more in a line of the Bible than I could understand; and yet at other times the whole Bible has been to me as dry as a stick.”
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