Read To Remember To Get Revelation.

The reason we need to read Scripture is because we need something to remember. Let me explain. In John 2, Jesus turns the Temple upside down or rightside up. He drives out the animals and turns over the tables. And it says the disciples "remembered" what was written: "Zeal for your house will consume me." If you don't read the Word you can't remember it. It's like not studying for a test. It's real hard to remember what you haven't read in the first place. The reason many of us don't have any revelation is because we haven't read the Word, therefore we cannot remember it. The disciples have a revelation in this moment because they remember what they have read.

Here's a revelation equation: Reading + Remembering = Revelation.

We need to read the Word so that the Holy Spirit can selectively and strategically bring to mind those words that He inspired thousands of years ago. We need to read so that we have something to remember. And it'll lead to revelation.

Your Greatness.

When you are seventy or eighty, and you wake up from bed one morning and look back on your life, how will you feel about it? Now that you are so old, you won't have to answer to anybody or fulfill their expectations - not your parents, not your boss or business associates or colleagues; not even your spouse. What would you have done with the gift of life? What story would you have left to tell that will keep you still relevant to the younger generation; still inspiring to the future you won't live to see?

The answers to those compelling questions above will be important to you then, so the question should be important to you now.

The course of your life is deternmined by three things:

1. The Relationships you form
2. The Decisions you make
3. The Actions you take

Each has the potential to change the course of your life.

If you are not doing something with your life, it really doesn't matter how long you live. If you are doing something with your life, it really doesn't matter how short it is. Life does not consist of years lived, but the usefulness of it. Life does not consist of how much you have accomplished or acquired but how well you have lived it to honour your Maker.

Your focus must be beyond yourself. Your life is just too small to give your glory to. You look better and you live a greater life when that life is lived for God's glory.

If you are giving, loving, helping, serving, encouraging, and adding value to others and in the course of it all returning glory to Him who has blessed you with much, you will be living a life that is well lived.

That will be your greatness! Live life to His glory!