Regina I read this today. It’s the truth:
“You don’t need to be admired among the literati or respected in the guild. You don’t need an impressive net worth. You don’t need to be well traveled or well read. You don’t need to be conversant in Portlandia or know how many Twitter followers Taylor Swift has. You don’t need to be politically articulate, or up on the mommy blogs or the young, restless and reformed buzz. You don’t need to see the movie. You don’t need to read the novel. You don’t need to look hip. But what you desperately need, more than anything else in the world, is the word of Christ dwelling in you richly.” (desiringgod.org, Jon Bloom)
This sounds like a straight meditation on Colossians 3:16 which says,
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
As I pondered this verse it occurred to me, that knowing isn’t dwelling.
To Dwell
Abide
Live
Think
Be
Do
One degree of glory to another.
Knowledge alone doesn’t accomplish this glory. Dwell richly.
Transform, to not conform.
In a time when knowledge is but a click away, let us not forget dwelling has more to do with the heart and the life than the facts accumulated in the storehouses of the mind. Lest our poverty be deepened by ignorance. Be rich, indeed, dwell with Jesus. Search the Scripture to come to Him.
