My little corner

Finding a long lost friend

Well My Little Corner has been very empty lately, and it hasn’t been due to a lack of anything to say. Things have really been piling on top of each other lately and I have been finding myself not knowing which way is up. It’s like the first time you go scuba diving and the instructor tells you to watch his eyes as you descend. You start to feel disoriented even though you came from the top and were just sinking.

Anyway, one thing that has really been on my mind recently is Bible study.Some say an apple a day keeps the doctor away but many Christians will tell you spending time with God first thing in the morning will keep the gloomies away. No one will dispute that there is no substitute for spending time in the Word of God, in your Bible. However, if you just have a few quickie moments in the morning before your children wake up or before you scoot off to the office, reading out of a daily devotional book may be just what you need to get your day started right!

Go to any bookstore, online or off, and you will find a plethora of daily devotionals. It can be very overwhelming. There are also a number of online sources where you can get daily inspirations sent directly to your in-box. You should have at least one devotions book in print. Doing so will give you a chance to sit quietly away from the computer. You may have a spot at the kitchen table or in your comfy chair in the living room or perhaps you feel like the only alone time you ever get is in the bathroom. Take your book where you can give the text and God your undivided attention.

But a daily devotional will not give you the depth of study that I feel everyone needs, and God aludes to in His Word. Many Christians go to church, listen to the pastor and feel that the sermon just preached was aimed at them. So if this is the case why not just go to church and that is it? Well a good pastor will look at the general needs of the church and preach according to those needs. So even though it feels that the sermon was aimed at you, it was actually aimed at your needs as a part of the body of the church. This is good, however you needs as an individual have not been addressed, this is bad. Your pastor also has not told you how he comes to the application that he has given you in his sermon. You have an idea if you are listening to what is known as an exegetical sermon, but you may not know that your pastor has been studying for about 30 hours before stepping up to the pulpit.

 

I believe that every Christian should have available the tools and skills required to contuct their own exegetical study of the bible so that they can study various passages which will be pertinent to their own personal spiritual needs. That is why I have created Orthotomeo.co.za. The official release date is the 1st March but if you are interested in knowing how to conduct a fully exegetical study of God’s Word then please visit and sign-up so that you don’t miss out on any of the lessons which I will be providing.

 

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One Response to “Finding a long lost friend”

1. Leon says:

   June 14, 2009 at 1:41 am

   I tried reading the bible but it just gave me a lot of questions so i stopped. I know bible should not be taken literally. Some one told me that to better understand i should know more about the culture of those who wrote them. It is logical that spending time with God keeps the gloomies away. However, not all knows the way to reach out to God. Maybe it starts into believing first.