You cannot avoid it. Everywhere you turn there is the printed page. You go to a doctor, and there are pages you must read and complete. If you are a student, the familiarity of the printed page goes without saying. As a working person, the annual income tax forms draw ever so closely to more printed pages. Much as you might want to free yourself from the printed page, life in the twenty-first century requires you to read.
The above is required reading. What about your leisure time reading? You may say you do not like to leisurely read. The fact is that a certain amount of leisure reading occurs weekly, if not daily. In discussing reading, Leon Gutterman gives some sound advice about the subject: “The reading which counts is the reading which, in making a man think, stirs and exercises and polishes the edge of his mind.” Reading stirs your mind. Yes, but better yet, it challenges the way you live your life.
The Apostle John wrote the book of Revelation. He challenges you to read that book of the Bible: “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near” (Revelation 1:3). What John says about reading the book of Revelation, can also be said about all Scripture. Notice the reason for your reading – that you will “heed the things which are written in it.” Scripture is written for instruction in how you are to live your life.
The printed page dates back for centuries. The Word of God on the printed page has always, and will always be, to tell you how to live your life. Scripture is written as a road map explaining how to live on earth and how to get to heaven. Dust your Bible off and daily read it! Start today!
