I get to talk to college students at Texas A&M as we travel around Brazos county officiating basketball games. In the course of our 2 hour conversation I end up asking them about their purpose in life. Many of them have no idea what that is and seemed stunned that someone asked them the question. Our purpose is directly tied to the Person who made us and the only way to find that purpose is to discover it in Scripture. For some reason, this morning, an old truth made so much sense to me in a new way. Faith needs something to bite into in order to strengthen us. These students that I'm talking to don't have faith in anything substantial and the faith that they do have is starving for substance. It's like the lids on a septic tank. When we are done working with them, they must be secured. They have to be screwed back in place, but often because of time and the elements, the place where the screw grabs on to is deteriorated so badly, that it will not hold. It seems to me that this is like the faith of some. There is nothing for their "faith" to grab hold of because there is nothing substantial to hold it in place. If this is confusing to you then maybe this author can explain it better:
" ... it simply stands to reason that faith feeds on the Word because the Word is what faith trusts. And where trustworthy words are not present, faith has nothing to bite into. That's the nature of faith. It exists by what it trusts. It has no life but what it gets from the truth it believes. So if we do not feed it with a substantial diet of life giving truth, it will shrivel. " *
If you don't have the luxury of opening a Bible every hour, you do have the ability to consult your memory. When your memory goes walking down the corridor of your mind opening doors, what does it find ? Does it find Ephesians 2, does it find Proverbs 25, or does it find other things ?
* John Piper A Godward life Book 2 page 215
