I recently read the introduction to this season's "The Word For You Today"...and I believe it was Peter from UCB Canada who wrote it. He mentioned how much he loves chocolate (I do too!) and how exciting recent studies have been syaing that dark chocolate (in small doses each day) is good for you...it has antioxidants in it. But he also went on to point out that, as we all know, too much of a good thing is dangerous...too much chocolate is bad for you. He made an interesting comparison...he said that the Bible is like food...and your favorite stories/verses are like chocolate. If you only read your favorite verses or stories it is bad for you because you do not benefit from the nutrition of the rest of the Bible...This does not mean that you should not read your favorite parts of the Bible...It's not wrong to have chocoate once in a while, it is healthy. It simply means that you should not pass over other parts of the Bible and suffer from malnutrition because you only hear part of the Word.
...for example...find where these verses are in the Bible...
"Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
"And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, _____?”
“A plumb line,” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
"When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;
the light of my face was precious to them."
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