Bible=Boring?

Do you or your children think that the bible is boring? A lot of people do. But I think that is because they don't know enough about it. The words boring and Bible don't go together. Our God is mysterious, huge, bigger than life, bigger than anything. No one can fathom his ways. His word is alive with the truth. It is a double edged sword piercing to the division of joints and marrow, soul and spirit. God's word is so powerful that he formed the universe with only a word. He speaks and it is done. So does that sound boring?

The bible is full of stories about passion, lust, murder, intrigue, lies, heros saving the day, wars, apocolypse...you name it. And it isn't even fiction! It is true, every word God speaks. For the little ones (like my boys) you can emphasize the gross out parts of the bible: cutting off a giant's head, being thrown into a furnace or into a den of lions or being eaten by a whale and ending up in its stomach then vomitted out. And what about Jesus? He was pretty controversial. He spit into dirt and put the mud on a blind man's eyes to heal him...ewww. He touched the diseased skin of the leppers. He stuck his spit laden fingers into the ears of a deaf man to heal him. He spit into his hand and touched the mute man's tongue. He sure did like to swap spit a lot!

For the teenagers, you can look back at the controversial behavior of Jesus that enraged the Jews. He ate, hung out and partied with sinners...the worst of the worst low lifes. He worked on the sabbath picking grain to eat, healing people and preaching. He refused to perform miracles in his own home town and refused to argue and fight for his freedom. He went against the popular, powerful people and stuck up for the poor and unlovely.

What about the heroes of the bible...the heroes of the faith? Every one of them showed faith and were used by God, yet the still sinned just as much if not more than the rest of us. They were human like us, yet used greatly.

So is there any way to think of the bible as boring? No, it is an oxymoron. That is why it is still the most popular and most read book in the world. What else would you expect from "GOD'S WORD"?