While in college taking a child psychology class my
teacher made this statement; she said that we remember 10% of what we hear but
we remember 90% of what we see. That has a been many years ago now but I still
remember what she said to this day and have found it to be true, a person will
remember more of what they see than what they hear. As I read my Bible I see
that it is no more than a book full of pictures; I understand that there are no
visual pictures in our bibles. I am not talking about pictures which are drawn
by pen, pencil, or brush, or seen by the physical eye. I am speaking of
pictures drawn on the canvas of our mind and memory, which I call word
pictures. This book we call the Bible is a book painting a picture of one
person, Jesus Christ.
John 5:39 Search the
scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which
testify of me. Our pictures are wonderful memories of days gone by; the
pictures of our children when they were small are priceless and cannot be
replaced. Many that have lost everything in a fire have said it was the
pictures and other memorabilia that couldn’t be replaced that they would miss
the most. Now think for a moment; if the
Bible is an unveiling of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the only pictures
we have of Him are the word pictures recorded in the Bible then we should
understand why there is an attack upon the Scriptures. Way back with Adam and
Eve we see the first attack. Satan disguised himself and came with an innocent
request for information. He simply asked.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was
more subtil (clever, crafty) than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? What did God
mean when He said, “Ye shall not eat of every tree of
the garden? “ Do you see
the word picture? A serpent talking to a
woman but also a woman talking to a serpent; notice what they are talking about
it’s about what God said. With the disguise and the deception that the serpent
used we see Eve being deceived. Now what can we learn from this picture? We
must be careful about the way sin is disguised or the way it is packaged. Sin
can be packaged in a way that it is made light of with some added humor and we
laugh at it. Then before we really realize what has happened we accepted the
deception as part of life and we have been deceived over a period of time.
Think about what I just wrote and use your great mind that God has given each
of us and think about what is going on around us. Have you ever asked yourself
how did things get like this? Drugs and shootings down at the school house,
robberies at an all-time high, abortions, high school drop outs and on and on.
I went by a drug store the other night which had what is called a “red box” I
understand it’s a vending machine that you can rent movies. What caught my
attention was that people were standing in line to rent a movie from it in the
rain. You may say that I came by at a busy time, to which I probably would agree
but I came back by there an hour later and there was another line of people at
the same box standing in the rain. Now what would they be viewing when they
began watching those movies? Probably acts of adultery, nudity, with profanity,
violence, killing and more? These types
of things didn’t happen overnight but over a period of time little by little we
have just allowed it and have accepted it as normal. Is this really normal
behavior? I personally don’t think so; I know I am stuck in the Leave it to
Beaver and Father Knows Best Days. I don’t care to hear profanity; I had rather
have a larger vocabulary more like Father Knows Best for really my Heavenly
Father does know best. If I am going to paint a word picture I sure want it to be one that everyone can view; don’t you? God
painted word pictures after word picture for our viewing don’t allow the enemy
to come and rob you as he did Eve. Have a blessed week is my prayer for each of
you.
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