Electric Blue Words

There is something about the bible. I read it every day but I don't read it like I brush my teeth. (I don't want to exactly but it's kind of necessary so I'll spare 2 minutes.) If I had to compare it to some other daily task it would maybe be to eating Future Life. (A breakfast cereal that has made into one of my top 10 reasons I love life. Maybe even top 5. It's that delicious and nutritious. I ain't even mad.)

Ok so the bible isn't really like breakfast cereal.

It's God's tool in my life. "A living sword." I get this picture in my head of a long sword that's white hot and glowing an electric blue, the kind of blue you get in a really hot fire. That's God's words.
He says whatever He needs to say to me. Some days He corrects the way I think, some days my actions and habits I need to change, some days He just uses it to show me what beauty is, what love is. God uses the bible in my life as a microphone, a dishcloth, a light switch. He uses it to give me a hug. Man, the way I live for those hugs.

It's truth. Truth is pretty hard to come by. Sometimes even with friends and family, I get confused as to what is truth, what is implied, where should I colour in the gaps, where should I take people at their words. But the bible is pretty solid. It's straightforward. There's nothing in it that can be proven a lie. It is not in any way tainted. And that really clears my head. God shows Himself to be real, and He also shows what He expects from me.

It's tough. In a life of frivolous conversation and shallow facebook updates, the bible is so very refreshing. It challenges me in so many ways. It whispers that God is real, heaven is real. Life is real so don't mess around. Don't live half-heartedly. Run to win. Run with everything you're worth. Don't build your life on things that are unimportant. Build your life on something that's going to last. But more than that: reading it is like trying to reach the horizon. The more you learn, the more there is to learn. I love the way the Jews describe the Word: it's a seventy sided jewel, hold it up to the light, the light shines through it in the most amazing way, but turn it just a little and you see the light refract through it in a different way, and again and again. It's beauty is so limitless. I just want to go as deep as I can.

The bible gives me hope like nothing else. It's a tool, it's the truth and it's tough. Nothing in the world is as satisfying.