The Importance Of Keeping Close

Our family has three birthdays quite close together so we decided to celebrate all of them yesterday by walking along the Columbia River Walk. However, walking is rough for me so I was riding on my scooter. At one point I stopped my scooter to watch the boats on the river.  At another I watched my kids and grandkids walking a little ahead of me. No one was talking much and we were just looking at the river and reading the signs telling of the history before our city of Vancouver was born.  We are together and are family and saw one another often so there wasn’t much need for talking. We bring everyday news to my son in New Mexico so he too feels close to all of us. My daughter and her husband will be visiting him soon.

Now, why am I telling you about my family staying close? Well, it’s because I don’t think any of us stay close enough to our Father who is in heaven. He has given us a book without error where He tells us how we are to live. You may have a black, red or white Bible in your home but that might be the only thing familiar to you because you have to dust it every once in awhile. Why don’t you pick it up and read one of the Old Testament stories, such as Moses taking the children of Israel across the Red Sea on dry land! Or Abraham almost sacrificing his son. How about a reading of the baby, Jesus, born in a barn in a terrible time in history.

The people living at that time and written about in our Bibles were not always good. You will read about many dishonorable, even crazy things they did, which will give us some comfort when we do some dumb things today.

Anyhow, we should be as close to our Bible as to our family. Pick it up today and know more than its cover. Really read it and keep it close. Remember, it is God’s love letter just to you.