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“God’s Word works, but we must click the Save button.”

A thought by Max Lucado (2015-09-15) from his book, Glory Days: Living Your Promised Land Life Now (p. 33). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Have you ever stopped and wondered if reading the Bible can make a difference in your life, does it really work?  Does its teaching really change us?

Max puts those questions to us that people ask and then says, “There is only one way to find out. Click the Save button.”

He goes on, “We all know what the Save button is. I do, and I am a remedial computer student. What great satisfaction occurs when, having created a document, we reach up and press the Save button.

“The click reshapes the landscape of the hard drive. Words on the screen descend into the core of the machine. As long as the words are limited to the screen, they are vulnerable and exposed to the irascible cursor. It earns its name. We curse the little monster as it gobbles up our hard work. But once we save it, it is safe.

He then asks, “Are you clicking the button on Scripture? We save truth when we deliberately and consciously allow what we’ve heard to become a part of who we are. Jesus said, ‘You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free’ (John 8:32). As we know (save) truth, the truth makes us free from guilt, fear, anger. Saved truth has a shaping, reconfiguring impact on a heart. Only when you allow the truth of Scripture to be the authority in your life can you know whether it works.”


So are you doing that?  Are you allowing the truth of Scripture to be the authority in your life?
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