It's a Gift

Isaiah 6:10

"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."

Many people may hear the word of God, but they do not come any where close to feeling the power behind his words. If people's hearts are hardened and they are no longer able to hear, speak, see, or feel the power of the word, then they will go searching for it. This would be a useful technique to get followers of God back on track. Since they went without the word for so long, the next time that they hear it, they will feel the power and and become "healed" of their wickedness.

I went to a church in Kim before while I was on my habit of church hopping every Sunday with friends of mine. The preacher, or Danny in this case, read from the bible in a section that I cannot recall at this moment but, he spoke of how the good book was brought back on to the earth and how many people gathered together just to hear it be read aloud. Thousands of people came and stood for three days just to hear what was in the book. Not one person complained and they were happy. The stood with humble hearts and they took in every word allowing it to strengthen their soul.

Today, church services can last from 2-4 hours on the Sabbath day. The entire time, there is one person who does not want to be there. There are families who stay for the first hour to hear the service and partake of sacrament and then they leave and call it a good Sabbath. I am guilty of those last few sentences.... Where has worship, love, understanding, service, and faith gone? The world would be hectic if the Bible was taken from the earth again, and here we are taking every single second of it for advantage. We have the instructions for life at the palm of our hands and yet, we never read them... When I heard of the people who waited and stood days on end just to hear the word I realized that the world today needs that same exact sense of direction. To be able to restore the gospel in the minds and hearts of everyone, including myself, would be a miracle in itself.