Okay so there is a joke behind the title of this post and I have to confess it started from a conversation my husband and I were having about movie selections. So the story goes like this...We were on the PBS website because we were interested in seeing what Masterpiece! titles they had available. I then clicked on the educational part of the classroom and saw a title I had recognized. I said, "Oh, they have this movie." My husband goes, "Oh really, well what is it about?" I said, "Well I really don't know but I have heard of the title before." We had a big laugh and discussed making a movie and a book entitled The Title and the cliff notes of The Title, and on and on the conversation went. It was late, we were tired and slap happy, but, needless to say, we were laughing our heads off.
So this has been running around in my head over the past few days and it got me thinking. How often is our relationship with Christ built on just the title of the Bible instead of the words inside. We find ourselves getting caught in ruts and having serious doubt issues because we look at the title of the "Good Book" and feel that is enough. Or we bring our Bibles to church after we dust the cover off from the weekly build-up that has occurred just to turn around and do it again the following week. We come to a place where then our beliefs become messed up because we only follow what the preacher preaches which often times gets twisted somewhat in our thinking due to our flesh. Then there are those who look at the title "Holy Bible" and come to a conclusion that nothing is truly holy anymore.
How much more fulfillment would we have if we really had an in-depth relationship with Jesus Christ! He so desires daily communion with us. He wants us to get past the title of the book and read His love letter. For some who have been around the block again in the church realm it can become easy to let the stories become too familiar thus losing the aspect of what God is really wanting to show us through them.
Back to the story about the movie selection...We decided to give the movie a try because of the title seemed familiar even though we did not really know a thing about it. Ended up that we did not even finish watching it. It was sick, twisted, demented. I did not do any research about the story prior to watching and it became a bad decision.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Word says this. It does not mean he is the "same ol', same ol'." It means that His promises are true, that His Word is alive, now and forevermore. If the Bible has become just a title that you have become familiar with, or your relationship with Christ seems to be more of just a "well I gotta have Him to get to Heaven," or if the Bible stories just seem monotonous then it is time to stop looking at the title and open up the Holy Book, more importantly your heart. Ask God to come in and reveal Himself fresh and new. This is the smartest research you could ever do with your life, making it the best decision ever.
