The book is a jacket
Until it is read and then
It’s an adventure
My family loves reading: my kids, my wife, myself. We all enjoy our books. I think every wall in our house that can have a bookshelf against it, probably does. We have everything from children’s books, to cook books, to music magazines, to theological treaties, to historical documents, and much more. Between us we buy a lot of books. Susan gets a lot of books from Amazon. Every once and a while, I find a classic at the Thrift Store or a used book store for next to nothing. Sometimes I find two or three books at a time. I can only read so many books at once so if I find that when I have purchased or received more than that at a time, I can put them on a shelf or somewhere else and never read them. The whole time they sit on the shelf they are nothing more than a piece of artwork, a title. It is only when I pick them up and read them that I learn and discover and live what the author wrote for me to experience.
Salvation is the same way. When we open the cover of our relationship with God through prayer and turn the pages of Salvation through Bible study and read the words through listening to and obeying Christ we are filled with all the joy and strength of the book but until then our Salvation is no more experienced than an unread book in a jacket upon a shelf.
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