With 24 hours gone, and still another 50 to 60 hours to go, our m2o Bible reading marathon has a long way to go!
Thanks for coming along yesterday if you managed to make it at all – don't forget you can also pop in today and over the weekend, especially for the entire story of the bible in 50 minutes on Saturday.
On Sunday we hope to be able to let those who are at church know approximately what time the reading will finish, do come along with a picnic at that time and join in the great celebration as we complete this challenge.
On the Sunday evening those who have been involved in running the event will pack away all the equipment, the Bible exhibition and tidy up. But one thing they won't be packing up is the bible! The bible is unlike any other book, once read we need to keep it with us to read again and again. I am often amazed how I can read a passage in the bible that I have read so many times before, but I notice something I hadn't noticed before!
It's as though I am reading it for the first time and God's Spirit reveals new truths, new insights to me – of course he will do that for you as well.
Paul writes to the Christians at Ephesus "Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." 6:17 And in Acts we read: "After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly." 4:31
It is clear that it is the Holy Spirit at work in us and who reveals God's truth to us in his Word. The very fact of being filled with the Holy Spirit equipped the early Christians to speak the Word of God boldly.
Today, will you speak the Word of God boldly? To do this you need to invite the Holy Spirit to fill you and as you take up the Word of God to love it, to learn it and to live it (as Rick Warren encouraged us to do), you will share his Word with others and give them the opportunity of eternal life.
That's what we are seeking to do through the Bibleathon – do come and share with us over the weekend and then keep reading and keep sharing the Word through the marathon of your life.
Martin Saxby
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