I have been reading and studying my Bible for over 50 years now! I don’t want to be in a conversation where the company chief executive called in our chief pilot back in the 1970’s and asked him to fire the co-pilot because of a mistake in flight made by him and our chief pilot told the executive I have been training him for over 20 years now and our executive said yes but Clem has not learned much! I was raised on a farm and books was not our priority! I only went to college because of the Vietnam War! I would rather study than die! After the war I joined the military! After I got saved on my death bed back in 1973 I began to consistently read my Bible! I read it much like I was trained to do in my school days! Since God saved me I wanted to know more about him! I wanted to discover him in a new way! Not in a religious way but in a personal way getting closer to him and living for him to share this good news! For many years reading about God was my attitude whenever I read the Bible! This is good not to discount this approach and it is where we must all start even though I had a personal encounter with God him raising me from the dead! Then one day the Holy Spirit ask me what do these words in your Bible really mean to me? Well I thought these words represent the breath of God from Genesis to Revelation! Then the Holy Spirit asked me are these words about me or about you? Well Lord they are about you! Yes but they are also about you! My words are a message from me to you! I am a personal God not some distant star! When I began reading the scriptures asking God what are you saying to me in this scripture then everything changed! Yes! Now I get it! Words to live with and live by! God became alive in me! He quickened my mortal body! All things have become new! Now I walk with purpose! No longer alone but his Word a lamp unto my feet a light unto my path! What I was looking for all my life now I have! His presence living in me and living through me! When God speaks to you do not expect universal acceptance! However what he speaks to you it should align with his word in the scriptures! His word is the gold standard! Jesus is more precious than silver more costly than gold! Without him we are nothing but with him everything is possible! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYouChurch.com