I want to tell you about a letter I received and never read. A friend had moved away to go to school, and we had decided to keep in touch by writing letters. As time passed, his letters became less interesting to me because he wrote about people and places I didn’t know. Soon I was just scanning his letters quickly and putting them away.
One day I received a letter from my friend that was several pages long with small handwriting. I read the opening paragraph, looked at all those pages, and then threw it aside. I don’t know why I picked it up again a few days later, but I happened to look at the back page and noticed a small “PS.” It startled me. It said that my friend was coming home for a few days and he was going to visit me! The visit was to be that very evening. I had no time now to go back to read all the letters he had been sending me.
As you can imagine, that visit was not a very happy one for me. I was unhappy because I wasn’t ready for his visit. I was afraid he would find out I had not been reading his letters, and I was ashamed that I had not cared about the things that were important to him.
You might think I was not a very good friend, and you would be right. But are you doing the very same thing ... to God? God, who wants to be more than a friend to us, has written us many letters. They are all collected in one book, the Bible. Do you look at all those pages and the small print and set it aside? It has the most important message in the whole world for every person alive.
If you read the Bible, you will get to know God Himself, who is our Father! You will learn of His wonderful plans for you for a coming eternity, of His love for you that made Him willing to send His only Son to die for you and how He now cares for each detail of your life. You will learn how to follow the Lord Jesus right now, every day. And, “[you] will know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:3232And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)).
Messages of God’s Love 4/28/2024