Journal From God

While with my youth at Acquire the Fire, I saw a beautiful picture of the Bible painted.
I want to share this picture with you.

Imagine this:
A young soldier is running through the streets of a war zone. Blasts, bullets, flares, the works. BAM! He's been shot! He sneaks off into an abandoned building. While laying there, he feels his heart slowing down, he's bleeding out, finding it hard to breathe. He pulls out a journal and begins to write in it. He writes about how he this journal is the greatest thing he will be able to give, it contains everything he'd hoped to teach - to pass on. He places a picture in the journal right before he dies.
A little while later, some of his fellow soldiers come in to get him. When they see the journal, they open it up and find the picture. This picture is a sonogram of the soldier's unborn child. And this journal was the soldier's thoughts, hopes, and dreams for his child.

Now ... imagine that when you were in-utero, your father died. When you become a teenager, your mother gives you a book. She tells you that this book contains everything your father wanted to tell you before he died. It contains his dreams and aspirations for you. It contains instructions on how he feels you should live to become a successful human being.
If you received such a book, would you read it? Would this book become a prized possession of yours? Would it not be very close to your heart?

Well, you DO have one of these books! God knew that He would not be here with us in the flesh, so he created a book of His thoughts, hopes, dreams for us. He created an instruction manual on how we should live. It's called the Bible. The Bible is our key to finding the heart of God. We should hold it dear to our hearts. We should read it. We should make it a prized possession.