2 Timothy 2:9
Gods word is not chained
After reading 2 Timothy 2:9 I got a picture in my head of a church with a chain around it and on the end of the chain was a bible that was hooked to it and flying high above the steeple but not going out into all the world.
This is an example of people who go to church every Sunday but don't take the word of God with them through out the rest of the week. They are Sunday Christians. They are keeping the word of God chained to the building instead of taking it into every day of their life.
But God said that his word is not chained. If you don't let God use you he will use someone else. If you are a Sunday Christian, God can not use you to be a blessing to others and you yourself will begin to feel chained by the problems of this world. Keeping the word of God chained to one day a week will cause you to fail to become all that he has created you to be.
If the word of God is only available inside a church building it becomes chained and confined to those in the building. But what about those people who don't enter the building? What about those who have been offended and hurt by those who sit inside that building? The word of God can not be chained to a building, it must go freely into all the world so that it can reach the hearts of the hurting, the desolate, and the lonely who are living in darkness and don't know that there is a light that can free them from their lack of knowledge. The knowledge that Jesus Christ loves them, the knowledge that God loves the sinner not the sin. The knowledge that forgiveness is for everyone with no exclusions.
We as believers must take the word of God from the building into all the world. You can have church while having lunch with a friend, or while standing in the check out line at the store. Having church means that you are using all your God given ideas to rely a message of hope to those around you. You can use your smile to lift someone's spirit who seems lonely or sad. You can give a compliment or extend words of blessing to a stranger.
Let us never be afraid to loose the word of God on a dying world. The rewards are eternal for them and for you.
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