I could write a book – my life experiences – my observations of people – my advice – my tips on navigating and not exploding in frustrations…

I have noticed in people – that ‘knowledge displayed’ but locked up is ONLY a book on a shelf – might look nice but not so useful – whereas ‘knowledge shared’ is being an open book – and ‘knowledge taught’ is really what expands and shares the knowledge base.

I am talking about people who might have learned things but don’t teach them, people who want to be honored (sticker decorations or new sleeve covers looking all shiny) and want to be seen but then keep their covers closed and never share the knowledge with the people who could benefit the most. They are stingy in page length too. Old and yellowing pages never to be shared. Not real anymore but eventually dated.

And now I will talk about the OPPOSITE – I will talk about JESUS – LIVING WORD – He is both the Book and the Knowledge – the Opening and the Teaching – the Pages and the Sharing – the Helper and the Holder of attention – the MESSAGE AND THE MESSIAH. He will tell you about being saved while He is saving you. You will learn after His save in addition to before it – He will come to you before you have a chance to come to Him. He will warn while He waits. Jesus saves because He knows the Ways the Whys and the Whats. Jesus knows us so we don’t have any excuse of why He wouldn’t want you – He wants you – He wants us. And He is able to do all things HIMSELF.

The more we learn about Jesus the more we learn how He wants us to be like Him. Do All Things Thru Him. Be a partaker in His kindness, openness, giftedness, pleasantries, reality, correctiveness, core-value stability and LOVE. Be both His student and the teacher to others – Lead but Be Led. Know Jesus and then Share Jesus in action – in values – in hope – in joy – in pain – in suffering – in LOVE. Be the book He is – but then open it – teach it – peruse it – pursue it – learn it – share it – be it – BE.

Be the Book that Jesus wants us to be – open – teaching – on display but readable – willing to give some page space to others – WILLING TO HAVE JESUS WRITE SOME FRESH PAGES IN OUR LIFE.

Be the Book that the Lord wants you to be – be not just a facsimile dialed in – don’t be a PDF of not being able to be edited – don’t be onion skin ready to fall apart – don’t be carbon paper never used black sticky and making marks without actually being used – and also don’t use up all the ink. Be more than just a reflection and copy but be a FRESH EXPRESSION – a fresh writing of old truths in action. Be the expression of LOVE leaping off the pages to be Jesus for others – to be you – to be us. Walk thru life as pages to be shared. Be real – Be the Book for REAL – Be the Amen to the Sentences too.

Don’t be Jesus ‘by the book’ but be the Jesus from the book and put the Live into the Living Word. Lessons Lived – Lessons Loved – Lessons Learned. 

AMEN

AMEN