Play It Again God

   The Word of God and the ministry of that Word by the Holy Ghost is a marvelous thing.  Have you ever watched those commercials advertising the oldie songs now on CD?  They play a bit of a song that once was so special to you and your attention is captured and there is a little turning in your soul that goes on.  You are reminded perhaps, even of special things related to that song and they flash in your mind.   You know, the Spirit also does this with the Word.   He can make a passage, a principle, a book of the Bible so powerfully real that it changes your life.  In fact, it becomes a part of your life.  For a while you live in that passage and it feeds you and grows in you.  Then time goes by, and it sort of fades from your thinking for a while.  And, then....the Holy Ghost makes an old revelation a new revelation - again.  Don't you love it?   It reminds me of a Cornflakes commercial of a few years in which we were encouraged to "Eat it again for the very first time".

   Some folks love the Word for what they can gain out of its promises.  That is fine with me.  Others love the Word because they just love the Word.  That is fine with me as well.  I guess I love it for both reasons.  It does sustain, it does offer riches both earthly and eternal.  But, I also just love it because it is loveable.  It is honey to the soul.  It reminds me of Him who soul thirsts after.  I love the way the Holy Ghost ministers it.  I love it when a fresh new revelation comes bursting through into my mind.  I love it when an old revelation becomes new again.  It makes me want to say "Play it again God".