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IN … indwell … abide …

What are the characteristics of your abode … your dwelling?

Here are a few I came up with …

• From an earthly perspective, it usually is not temporary
• A great deal of time, effort and money go in to KEEPing it
• Over a lifetime, we probably spend more time there than anywhere else
• Oftentimes it is shared with others … family, friends and visitors
• We go there to find rest and renewal
• We find nourishment there
• We find love and care there
• We oftentimes call it home
• It is typically the place we live IN

IN … abide … indwell … take a moment to consider based on the above what those words truly mean … now consider several passages of Scripture recorded by the apostle John … spoken by Jesus.

“If you abide IN Me, and My words abide IN you, ask whatever you wish, and it…

Let’s face it. Oftentimes when we hear the words Bible study we immediately relate it to one of our least favorite and most feared words … homework. And we run shrieking and screaming into the streets …

OK, so I have exaggerated just a bit … a very little bit.

Homework … despite the love-hate relationship we have with it beginning from childhood … is an essential in building the brainpower, knowledge and skills needed throughout life.

But I fear that simple correlation … Bible study equates to Homework … causes most to miss one of the greatest and grandest adventures in life … the adventure found IN and THRU the words of God.   After all, there is no grade given and no consequences for not doing this biblical homework … or so we fool ourselves into believing.

And in contrast to our life-long nemesis homework, the adventure IN the…