Heart vs. Phone?
I was very fortunate to have parents who brought me up in church. In our case, they had to start and grow the church for us to have one to attend. In 1953 when we moved to Alamosa, Colorado, it was 85 miles to the closest evangelical church of any type. My folks and about 8 other adults banded together to start College Heights Baptist Church. It was a pretty large church for Colorado when I left there 20 years later, running about 125 each week. Now there are churches in practically every little town in that area of southern Colorado that can be traced back to College Heights and the work my parents and others did.
One of our main summer events was VBS. I still remember many of the scriptures I learned as a child in VBS. One is Psalm 119:11. King James was the standard of the day, so that is the version much of my scripture was learned in. “Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” I remember as a child having a Bible that had a zipper and a mustard seed in the little handle to zip and unzip it. Before I became a Christian, I remember holding it over my heart to try to help fill that void I felt. I’ve had four personal Bibles over the years, others to use in study, and have several versions on my phone.
Last week, when I read that scripture, I started thinking about how things are in today’s world. Most of us have at least one version of the Bible on our phones or tablets. I’m not sure we read it as much using these devices as when we had to keep up with a Bible. I’m afraid the tendency may be “out of sight, out of mind.” Would a new translation of Ps. 119:11 read, “Thy Word have I hid on my phone, so that I always have it, but seldom read it?”
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