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E veryday Uses for the Bible There are a lot of useful things you can do with your Bible - such as—
2. Impress your friends and neighbors. Keep it open on the dining room table so they can’t help but notice. 3. Use it to press flowers. This is a good use for those big, heavy tomes. The flower goes in wax paper underneath. If you keep the paper trimmed back, the pressing can be unobtrusive while you’re also using the Bible in suggestions 1 and 2. 4. Handy for a lift if you don’t have a high chair for that little tyke. Don’t forget to keep pressing that flower! 5. Hold up the end of the couch when a caster comes up missing. Keep pressing. 6. Part of your exercise program. You won’t need to keep the flower for this.
You get the idea - just use your imagination. You can also use the Bible the way it was originally intended to be used - as God’s Word speaking directly to you to teach you how to get through this life victoriously! You can read about the victory of David over Goliath, then apply that teaching in your own life by putting yourself in the role of David and whatever giant you’ve got standing against you in the role of Goliath. Put Jesus (the Word) in as the rock that bashes that giant in the head and knock that giant out long enough for you to cut that "uncircumcised Philistine’s" head off with his own sword. That giant could be anything: cancer, debt, divorce, anything that looms up in your life to threaten you and try to make you think it’s bigger than God. Come against that thing like David came at Goliath, running at it - full of confidence and authority in the NAME of the Lord of Hosts and knowing that that ROCK, used in that way, doesn’t miss, hits hard and goes in deep. Then cut its head off with the sword of faith. Here’s another use for your Bible. In the Gospel, Jesus got the madman of Gaderrah out from the middle of those tombs and back into a normal life. Think about the tombs you’ve been living around in your own life: unforgiveness, grief, selfishness, fear. Jesus, as the Word, will get you out from among those tombs, get you cleaned up and decently dressed and back on the road as a normal person. In the New Testament, you see the word "Christ" associated with the Name of Jesus. "Christ" isn’t Jesus’ last name. It is a Greek word which, translated into Hebrew, means "the Messiah". The term "Messiah", when translated into English, means "The Annointed One" which we need to always remember means that One who is covered with God’s Power to remove burdens and destroy yokes of bondage. So you read the name of Jesus Christ like this - Jesus (the Savior) covered with God’s power to remove burdens and destroy yokes. Use your Bible, as the Word of God (Jesus), to save yourself and anyone you want to tell, by removing your burdens and destroying whatever yoke of bondage you’re under. We can think of lots of burdens - worry, lack, confusion, sickness, loneliness. The list is endless and Jesus knows that. He came and experienced it in the way we experience it; burdened with a human body, walking around in a difficult world. Jesus told us that He came so we could have better lives. Now when God intends that you use His Word to make your life better, He didn’t intend that you use it to press flowers! He wants you to know how He’s loved us through the ages by removing our burdens and destroying our yokes.
He got the Hebrews out of Egypt, just like he can remove your yoke of bondage by getting you out of debt.
The only way we’re going to know all this, enough to be able to apply it to our own lives is to stop using our Bibles as table ornaments and flower presses. He gave us His Word to use so we could change our lives and make them better. The only way we can do that is to open the book and put it to work, using it as God meant us to - as the cornerstone of our lives, the rock to build our lives on , the rock to sling at our enemies, the rock upon which His commandments are written, the rock that we climb on and lift our children up on, the rock of our salvation. Jesus, the annointed one and His annointing, works a lot better as the power to change our lives than as part of that decorative arrangement on our mantles.
By the importunity of the Holy Spirit,
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