Dead wirters’ books (and their lively work in my heart)
I love books, especially those written through the centuries by men and women of God whose words burn in my heart. God has led me to hundreds of such books by Christ-followers who have been promoted to the glories of Heaven. I walk into a bookstore, a library, or even a yard sale and a book shouts my name. I take it home and reading it changes my life!
It’s hard to let books like that go, so I watched my book collection grow and grow. And I treasured it. But one day God told me to let it go. So, finally I gave it to a Christian ministry, and they said they would send it to Christian leaders in a poor country. Many months later I was in their headquarters, and I asked someone if they had shipped the books that I gave them. This person said he thought that they were still in a closet down the hall. I opened the closet door and there were my former books dumped in a big pile, tattered and broken. I was disappointed that their journey had ended in such a way. Then I heard God say, “What those books have done and worked in you will never go away.”
My heart still burns with their words and as time goes by God continues to bring more books from saints gone on, for me to soak up in my spirit. I love words from my brothers and sisters in the past that match what God is saying and doing in me and inspire me to be “useless before God” and to let Him have His way.
God shows me His way through the greatest book of all. I love it so much I rarely miss a day of partaking of its glory, insight, and delight–the book of many writers but one author. God’s Spirit, “The Comforter,” continually heals my heart when I absorb the living words within it covers.
If you’re convinced
You need a zone
To find comfort,
You’ve missed the point
Of God’s Spirit,
“The Comforter.”
Holy Spirit,
Be my comfort!
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