Reconnecting with God’s Word

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January 2010 is almost over and I hope everyone is keeping up with their New Year’s resolutions. One of the key resolutions I made this year, as I do every year, is to be more consistent in my Bible readings and really making God’s Word a part of my daily life. For the few weeks we’ve been announcing an online Bible resource www.youversion.com, and what I’ve personally been appreciating the most about this resource is the wealth of Bible translations they offer. Oftentimes, I have the tendency to glance over or skim through familiar passages because I’ve read them so many times before. But with this resource, I’m able to read familiar passages in a variety of different translations at the click of a button, and this has given me a fresh perspective on God’s Word.

Just this past week, I read Ephesians 2:8-10, a passage I’m sure many of you are familiar with. However, I read it in the Message translation, and it was as if I had read these verses for the first time. Read how this version translates this passage:

8 Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! 9 We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! 10 No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

This has not only given me a fresh perspective into God’s Word, it’s also given me a renewed desire to read and connect with God’s Word every single day. I look forward to what God has to say to me through His Word, because it feels like I’m reading it all over again for the first time.

And my hope and prayer is that you too would take a step this year in making God’s Word a part of your daily lives as well. Go and check out www.youversion.com, find a reading plan that works best for you, and rediscover the Bible again by reading a different translation. May 2010 be the year where we reconnect with God’s Word.