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Originally Posted by Brother Tim
It is very saddening that those who reject the purity of the Scriptures and question what is and what isn't God's words can never experience the deep joy that comes to those who know the truth.
I can understand how some of them will claim that we "worship" the Bible. Because they can only look at us from the outside and know nothing of what is taking place within us, it is not surprising for them to misread our actions.
When David said, "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD." (Psalm 122:1), it was not that he worshipped the house. He worshipped the One he met there. I do not worship a leather book, I worship the One I meet when I read it.
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Tim that is so true. That is why I struggled so much with my prayer life and my sense of God, when I stopped reading His word. Of course it didn't happen in a second and so I didn't associate it with not reading the Authorised Bible.
Also I found that there are any number of things that exist within the churches today that masquerade as God. It is easy to get caught up in believing that you are worshipping or following the Lord when in fact you are following a doctrine, or a movement or a false prophecy.
Since returning to the KJV I have found answers that I have been crying out to the Lord about for years. Why did I get deceived, because I stopped judging everything by the Word. I then found it easier and easier to believe more and more lies.
The renewing of my mind that has been occurring since resoaking in the Word of God has begun to strip away lies and to reestablish the truths that I once held so strongly. I have even found that my kids are already starting to talk about things that they are seeing and how much better they are finding it, reading the Bible.
Even my three year old, likes it when I sit with her and read her new Bible, a kids KJV. We had an interesting discussion about how God made the world and the sun, and the moon. She was glad that He had made birds and fish and especially peanut butter. (well the peanuts).
She would never sit and let me read to her from another Bible. Yet she sits and listens to the KJV.
It can't be the book, it must be the author. He is living and blesses the reading of His word. His word never returns void and always does what He sets out for it to do. In our lives it is bringing great blessing as we once again learn the truth about our Saviour, and come face to face with our King.
What an awesome God we serve.