God's Word-Benefits Our Life

What Is God's Book? That is the question for a few minutes. Some might answer that God’s Book is the Bible, or that God’s Book is inspired, or that God’s Book is encouraging, or motivational. All good answers, but for a few minutes notice that God’s Book is...

For Meditation “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night” (Joshua 1:8). To meditate is to think deeply or carefully about something, the idea is that we should meditate upon the Bible, God’s Book. Before we can meditate on the Bible we must first read it, thus let me encourage you to “get cracking” read a paragraph or two right away and then meditate upon it. [Why not read Joshua chapter one?]
For Our Guidance “That thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein” (Joshua 1:8). The Bible is full of great advisements that work into all walks of life. Note just a few examples of advisements for our relationships with our families (spouses, children and parents); with our neighbors and fellow citizens (“do unto others”); and finally on what kind of employees we should be.

A Book Of Prosperity “For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” (Joshua 1:8). Two immediate contexts come to mind, the prosperity of those in the Old and New Testament era’s. For example (and this is not always the case) but we tend to think of physical prosperity to the Old Testament characters. God was regularly helping Israel win physical battles and the like. In the New Testament we tend to make spiritual applications (again each testament is not mutually and exclusively divided into physical and spiritual categories). The Bible is a book for all ages, bringing prosperity to all that follow it’s guidance.

Perhaps even today, you could begin to challenge yourself and your friends to read and study a chapter or two a week, following it as a life guide. Prosperity awaits you.

Keith McNeely
Preaches for the Curry St church of Christ