by David Gibson<\/p>\n
Perhaps you own a Bible with your name engraved in gold on the cover. Or maybe you received your Bible from a relative or friend who wrote a meaningful inscription to you on the flyleaf. Certainly, this makes your Bible more personal than those of the same edition in boxes on the bookshelf at the store.<\/p>\n
But there are even better ways to personalize your Bible.<\/p>\n
Some people think they should never write in their Bibles. But isn’t writing notes in a Bible for study purposes actually a sign of great respect? It shows we care about discovering its treasures. It shows that we are taking the Bible seriously and genuinely want to learn more. A Bible with a worn cover, loose pages, its words circled and underlined or highlighted, and its margins filled with notations from years of study-now that’s <\/b>a personalized Bible!<\/p>\n
How many Bibles should a Christian wear out in a lifetime?<\/p>\n
“But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves . . . . one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does<\/em>” (James 1:22, 25 NASB).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Having a Bible is good-if we study it. Studying the Bible is good-if we obey it. Could there be a better way to personalize our Bible than by shaping our lives each day according to its teachings?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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