The 12

Bible trivia time!

Can you name the 12 original disciples and then can you name the replacement disciple?

My roommate and I were up at Mugwalls reading, when my mind started going off trying to name the 12 disciples. I quickly realized that I could get to 8, but only after some serious thinking and that was it. My roommate got to 11, I am not bitter, he might be younger than me but he can be pretty knowledgeable when he wants to.

But that's not the point, the point is I felt convicted for not knowing the Word I love and desire to follow.

This is not an unhealthy conviction, and by unhealthy I mean a selfish desire to know all of Scripture so that I might look smart or people would come to me for answers. Just a confession, I have thought that at times especially when I am selfish.

And this is also not about the 12 disciples in particular, rather this is about Scripture in general. That I need to know it, meditate on it, and live it out daily. I know that I will never fully know all of Scripture and I will continually be learning about the traits of God and my interaction with Him until the day I die, but my desire is to know the Word in such a way that I might be able to spot false doctrine the instant I here it, and not only that but to honor and worship Him in the way He has laid out for me.

It is kinda funny how God uses a simple example of naming the disciples to teach me about knowing the Bible better. The fact that I don't know all of them at a given moment, tells me I have a long way to go.

I never want to think that I know the Bible so well that I no longer need to study it.

Along the same note a new movie is out called "The Book of Eli", which is a pretty amazing movie. One of the best moments in the movie for me was when Eli realized that for 30 years he had been reading the Bible and trying to keep it safe, but that he had forgotten to put what he read in to practice.