I can’t resist one more blog on Bible reading prompted by a conversation with a friend about his 3-year-old’s toilet training. Apparently, there are a lot of little-kid potties in his house, and about one of them, my friend said:

Of all the potties he doesn’t use, this type is his favorite. He uses all the potties some of the time. He’s more of a potty hobbyist. – A father talking about his 3-year-old son

The kid had also explicitly rejected a pink potty since “Pink is for girls.”

It reminds me of some believers and their preferences for Bible translations. They heartily approve of some and strongly reject others. But none of that matters if they don’t read any of them. And, more importantly, when they read, there are “no points” for reading only and certainly no points for possession only.

And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them… (Deuteronomy 17.18 – 19, ESV, emphasis mine)

But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. (Matthew 7.26, MSG)

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1.22, NIV)