Ever  wonder what  would  happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone, or at least used it as much?

• What  if we carried it around in our purses or  pockets?
• What  if we flipped through it several time a  day?
• What  if we turned back to go get it if we forgot  it?
• What  if we used it to receive messages from the  text?
• What  if we treated it like we couldn’t live without  it?
• What  if we gave it to Kids as  gifts?
• What  if we used it when we  traveled?
• What  if we used it in case of  emergency?

Oh,  and  one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don’t have to worry about our Bible being  disconnected because Jesus already paid the  bill.

“I do not mean to make an idol of health, but it does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least. When we lie down to sleep at night, we offer our full appointment calendars to God in lieu of prayer, believing that God–who is as busy as we are–will surely understand.”
–Barbara Brown Taylor

Andras Tamas is the name officials gave a certain man decades ago in a Russian psychiatric hospital. He’d been drafted into the army, but the authorities had mistaken his native Hungarian language for the gibberish of a lunatic and had him committed.

Then they forgot about him. For 53 years.

A few years ago a psychiatrist at the hospital began to realize what had happened and helped Tamas recover the memories of who he was and where he came from. He recently returned home to Budapest as a war hero, “the last prisoner of World War II.”

Not only had this man forgotten his real name, he hadn’t even seen his own face in five decades. So, according to one news account, “For hours, the old man studies the face in a mirror. The deep-set eyes. The gray stubble on the chin. The furrows of the brow. It is his face, but it is a startling revelation.”

Imagine looking at your own face in a mirror and not recognizing it. James 1:22-25 says that is just what people are doing when they listen to God’s Word but do not obey it. There, right before their eyes in Scripture, is an accurate reflection of themselves. But they don’t truly see—with the eyes of their hearts—what the Bible shows them.