Study Your Bible While You Still Can

Conversations I enjoy the most, are conversations about the Lord. It’s like opening up a treasure and sharing that joy with the person you are talking to. One such conversation left an imprint in my soul!

Here I was sitting with precious Hettie. We visit with many people in our lifetime. But I am persuaded that there are those special visits that changes a person! Hettie is one of my dearest friends at the nursing home. One of the most active ones in fact. At the nursing home I will always find her up and about, cleaning or visiting with the others. I am so pleased that she gave me permission to take a photo of her. God has made her beautiful!

I give God all the glory and all the honor for putting her on my path. I felt this urge to share her testimony. The council I received is very wise and a wake up call for all Christians. Even non believers will see the urgency and, with God’s grace, turn and serve our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here are the photos of what her Bible looks like on the inside:

Opening up her Bible made me realize what hunger one must have for God’s Word. A desire to know more and more. Because the more you learn, the more God transforms you through His Word. But the Bible is also primarily there to get to know our Savior. His Character leaps off every page. It strengthens faith. It warns against the enemy. It prepares you for war. It comforts you. It give you knowledge and helps you develop it into wisdom by experience. The more you know, the more you grow to love God.

This desire and hunger is clearly visible in Hettie’s Bible. My eyes did not know where to start. The pages were full. Regardless of the way you study your Bible, it’s easy to see if a Bible is being used and if a Bible goes untouched.

Her testimony left me with a changed perspective. She shared with me how she would always add notes to Scriptures. The notes help her remember and understand what God is saying through His Word. She is now in her golden years. She shared with me how she forgets Scriptures until someone preaches about them, then the memory would vaguely return. We talked about the fact that younger people still have fresh memory to study Scripture and actually remember what they have read.

Thus, her testimony had to be shared to create an urgency in all those who reads this blog. Study your Bible while you still can! People of older ages also read and study the Word, but they have their memory slowing them down. I believe the Holy Spirit guides older people with a lot of grace. I believe He brings up Scripture and reminds them whenever it is needed. But we must never become passive and expect God to bring up Scripture if we have never done our part in spending time in His Word.

Spending time in His Word means ‘drinking it’, ‘eating it’, breathing it, thinking about it and praying about it every single day. Psalms 1:1,2 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night. When I look at Hettie’s Bible, I’m kind of ashamed that I did not take my Bible seriously much sooner in my walk with the Lord. Growing in the knowledge of God will forever be a wonderful journey!