The Bible
Not only is it good, but it is important to have friends in your life that can help steer you to better and greater things. Not only is it good for this, but the opposite is necessary in the sense that it is not good to have friends in your life that steer you down a bad road, a place that doesn’t build you or bring you to good places. This leads me to a place where I am aware of my complacency with my relationship with God and gives me desire to apologize. I don’t want to say sorry to you because of my personal relationship with God, because that is something between God and I. However, I do want to say sorry for claiming the name of Christianity and being stagnant in my pursuit of God. I would like to say sorry for every bad experience that anyone has ever had for a Christian. We’re hypocrites, but at the same time we’re still human like anyone else, just with morals in a sinful body. We are still subject to the same temptations and struggles as anyone else, but we have a standard, a book that tells us what we should do. The unfortunate thing is that not every Christian wants to seek what the Bible says.
I made a comparison yesterday with some friends. One of them gave a metaphor of a deposit that we have with God. It made me think of the phrase literally. Working in retail, a deposit is a package prepared at the end of the night that holds money to be brought to the bank. The Bible is a Christian’s deposit, yet we usually don’t know the amount of “money” that is inside. Living in complacency makes it difficult to realize how much money we actually have. If you’re walking down a road and someone gives you a container and says there is a good amount of money in it, what would you do? I would hope it would be safe to say that at some point or another you would count the money. You do, after all, want to know how much money you have. The same should be said for the Bible. Shouldn’t we desire to know the amount of wisdom inside? Shouldn’t we be prepared? Aren’t we curious to know and seek truth?