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When the Bible Does Not Work

My dad was sick with a nasty bout of bronchitis. We expected a timely recovery after a doctor prescribed antibiotics, but days later there was no improvement. We saw a physician. A diagnosis was made. We bought the prescribed medicine. Why was my dad still sick?

The answer was simple: he wasn’t taking his medicine. No matter how powerful those antibiotics were, they didn’t help my dad until he opened the bottle and swallowed the pills, allowing them to do what they were designed to do. Medicine simply doesn’t work when it remains unopened on a bathroom counter; it must be ingested.

Sort of like your Bible, huh?

The Word of God is powerful. Within its pages are true accounts of real couples who struggled with infertility and had miracle babies, and of heart-broken parents who survived the deaths of precious children. There are promises of peace, sweet sleep, and healing. The truths of the Bible sound phenomenal. So why wouldn’t the Bible work for you?

Like the medicine in my dad’s bathroom, the Bible will not work if it remains unopened. You can go to church—just like we went to the doctor. You can download every translation this app offers—just like we got all the prescriptions filled. However, until you ingest that precious Word, take it inside of you and allow it to become a living part of you, the words on its pages will do you no good. An unopened Bible is just like an unopened bottle of medicine.

Oh, but friend—the Bible is far more powerful than any medicine, or any substance on earth. It will correct you when you err. It will judge the attitudes of your heart. That’s a sobering thought. But you need it, for example, if you catch yourself resenting fertile friends. That’s when you open the Bible for direction, so you can deal with that attitude. See what the Bible says about it; do a search inside this app. Your God-breathed prescription is here at your fingertips. There is no problem in this life you will face—not even infertility—that the Bible cannot help.

As for my dad, once he took the medicine, it worked and his condition improved.

The Bible works wonders when we ingest it. Why not open it right now?