I was sitting in Applebee’s with my wife reading my email on my phone. I wasn’t offending her because she was scrolling through Facebook on her phone. I thought this is stupid. This was an opportunity for quality time conversation with the person I love most. Were we doing this because after 50 plus years of marriage we have run out of things to talk about? Then I looked about and saw both people at the table next to us texting. And I noticed the couple two tables away doing the same. One might assume it must be more interesting to talk to people you are not with.
I also have a Bible program on my phone so I don’t have to carry my Bible to church. However, while using it during a sermon I suddenly got an electronic text from someone on the other side of the church chastising me for not paying attention.
Actually texting isn’t as new as we might think. Three thousand five hundred years ago God texted Moses and God has been texting us ever since. Our Bibles are God’s text to us. As old as the Bible is, the miracle of it is, it is still relevant. The inherent principles are eternal. It is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. That comes from Paul’s texting to a young pastor named Timothy. In Hebrews 1 Paul wrote that God has communicated with us in various times and various ways. For us the text is the Good News. You will never ever get a more important text than the one from our Father assuring us that we are extremely loved.
Once again I carry my Bible to church.
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 3, 2015
Spring of Life, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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