My latest hobby is gold prospecting, since you have to find
it to mine it!! Don’t get me wrong, I have found a little bit with the majority
being 2 “pickers” or gold pieces that are big enough to grab with your fingers.
Now the local miners say that is a big deal since many go years without finding
something like that, but the hole I have found those two have been unproductive
other than those two.
As I have dug through almost a half-ton of dirt most of my
pans come up empty in the end, no “color”, but when I do find “color” I get
real excited that maybe I have finally hit the “pay streak” only to have the
next pans not “pan out”. You see how many common terms used in our language
come from gold mining!
I digress and have talked about this subject before when it
comes to using a sluice box, but how do you read the Bible? Do you dig through
mountains of reading to find that one “nugget” of scripture? Like John 3:16
which offers mankind salvation through Jesus! Or maybe Genesis 1:1 to prove
that God is above all! Or John 14:12 which shows the power of believing!
The key that I want to reiterate again is we need to stop
looking for nuggets in the word and realize it’s the “mother load”!! Just open
from Genesis 1:1 and read to Revelations 21:21 to discover the glory in each
word printed. And don’t worry so much as to the revision as much as to the
overall view. Find something you are comfortable reading and read, you will be
blessed beyond your dreams!! You will see how often “pickers” are used for
advancing earthly agendas when used out of context.
So read, verify, read more, and pray a bunch. It’s a
simple formula!
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