A Story Or The Truth?

Most people, I think, love to read books, newspaper articles, blogs or some sort of media daily. It’s something that is just built in to us. Men love business journals and magazines that are to their “taste” and lifestyle; women magazines, motor vehicle magazines, business newspapers, or blogs, etc. Many love sports magazines or online blogs, etc, about cycling, golf, caravanning, or angling, plus other types of outdoor activities. Many a times we read and laugh at what is written. There are times certain articles are false and others are very true. Some are just “topics” of possibilities while others fall under “reality” and are true. But what about the Bible? Is this a book of truth or is it just another story, a myth, written to please mankind?

Many know the following “song”, and here’s my version, hopefully close enough to the real one… “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Many of us heard it and sang it in our junior years, pre-school years. When we were taught what the Bible was telling us as children, about Jesus and our loving God, we believed it. Today many still believe it as adults. Others, on the other hand, became non-believers, atheists, or just created their own gods. Throughout the years since the day I was saved, I discovered that men are in general living without God, while women usually are saved and turn to Jesus Christ. Men create their own ideas of gods and who they worship and believe. Why? Men usually grow up with hearts of rock; no love, no peace and no genuine beliefs. They just accept certain things in life that suits them. Hebrews 4:2 tells us something that is very real and true, even in today’s lives we lead.

Here is the verse – “For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.” What was spoken of here? It shows us the two types of people related to it. First those who believed it and combined it with faith, and those who saw no value in it at all. Men fit into both these categories, but the higher percentage fit into the second category; they don’t see value or any worth in God’s Word. The Bible is just another story book to them while others, believers and true Christians, live it out by the faith they walk with daily. They believe in Jesus Christ and they live by the faith He has instilled in their hearts, that which leads to a long-term and everlasting relationship with Him. The Bible has become their true guide of the lifestyle God planned for us all. Others just read it as a story book. Their lives remain empty. Believers, in other cases, live lives filled with blessings and in abundance. This does not mean lives of great finances, great possessions, or whatever many dream of.

God’s riches are beyond human understanding. It is what He has to offer us in the life after this one; it is what’s lying ahead for us in the life with Him in our heavenly home. There are many promises throughout the Bible. Not all, if any for that matter, offer us freedom from trials and tests. But they allow us to become stronger to handle these trials and tests. They lift us up above our lives troubles. Here are a few. Just read them and claim them for yourselves today. They are Isaiah 54:7, Ephesians 3:15-19, 2 Chronicles 32:1-7, Joshua 1:5, Hebrews 2:18, Hebrews 6:13-18. There are many more throughout the Bible to mention here. Now, which man are you? Is the Bible real to you or just another story? I believe every word and Scripture in it today, since the day I was saved. My own life is a testimony of many of God’s promises and He has brought them to “life” in my life, even though all the trials I went through tried to break me down. Do you need help in believing the Word of God? Maybe I can help you see the truth. Contact me via email and we can chat; nelson.canha@gmail.com … I’m here to get you into the new life which awaits you as a new believer.