“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer” – (Psalm 19:14)
This Sunday is an all-age service focussing on the Bible. It is the first in a four-part series on the basics of Christian growth.
How many voices were you listening to before you left the house today? Between our phones, the news, the voices in our own minds and everybody’s opinion on everything, it’s a noisy world, and it isn’t always easy to tell which voices are worth listening to.
The Bible contains many people with loud voices. Goliath shouted at Israel every morning and evening for forty days, and a whole army was frightened by him. Delilah wore Samson down, day after day, until he gave in.
But the Bible also shows us how to listen to THE voice, not just the voice that’s the loudest, scariest, tempting or most persistent but the voice and the word that brings life, it shows us how to listen to God. Psalm 19 talks of God’s laws and instructions, which revive the soul, give joy to the heart and are sweeter than honey. It’s a voice we can trust, because it belongs to the God who rescued us, our Rock and our Redeemer. But we only get to know it by listening, and in a world that is shouting, that takes some deliberate choosing. By meditating on the word of God each and every day, the hope is that we will be like sheep following the voice of the one who leads us to safety.
“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.” (John 10:27-28)
This Bible Sunday lets remind ourselves of our love for God’s word or perhaps discover it for the first time! Over the next week try to re-read your favourite story in the bible and then tell someone about it! If we believe God is good and his word brings light to dark places, let’s celebrate the Bible beyond our church building this Sunday.
