The Flint River
Imagine that you have all the worldly possessions your heart desires. Tattoo in your consciousness being surrounded by friends and family, adoring you and celebrating your success. See in your mind’s eye being with your life-long spouse, enjoying a romantic getaway on an exotic island. Hold on to these thoughts and embrace them.
Now, let me do this to you. Internalize all the emotion you would feel if all these were taken away from you in one fell swoop. Imagine yourself in an emotional desert, walking along the empty streets of your mind and the unending alleyways of your soul.
What would you do? How would you react after losing the life you lived and all those you lived life for? Empty? Tormented day and night, living a life that no longer has purpose? Stuck in the dark? Lost—not knowing where to go? Longing after the comforts of past glory?
How fleeting life seems. What are you to do? If you were only able to save one book—one possession that seemed inconsequential, one book you hardly noticed amongst all of your significant treasure trove!
Knowing nothing about it and not expecting much, you open it. Why? Because it is the only thing you have left.
With each word you read you realize how empty your life really was. With each message you uncover in this quaint book you experience a hope that you have never felt…not even when you were on top of the world. With each turn of the page you wish to devour more and more of what is being said and told and promised.
With the completion of each verse, chapter, and book your emptiness is filled with hope, love, and joy. With each step forward you realize you are no longer in the desert. Rather, you are now sailing the ocean with the winds at your back. The alleys of your soul have become avenues of hope.
The book and its contents have a marvelous effect! Your days become more and more filled with the sun’s rays even when night has arrived. Now you live each day, not worrying about what tomorrow brings, for you have faith in what lies ahead.
Welcome to my world! This is my life. The Bible has become my Book.
Care to take the leap of faith as well?
Written by: Stauro Punongbayan
