Today is shaping up to be a wonderful day.  I should probably have this attitude heading into more of my days, but I'm very excited about the prospects of today.  Keeping to the title of the post, my day yesterday went unimpeded by the vacuum of television in my apartment.  (To clarify, I did watch the end of the A&M-Memphis game over at my friends' house, but this fast/lifestyle change is for personal and alone time only.  I hope that makes sense.)  There were several times throughout the day that I found myself at home, wanting to grab the remote and turn on the TV.  During those times, I have found a much more stimulating form of entertainment.

A few days ago, I purchased a MacArthur study bible.  I understand that the commentaries do not make the bible, but Mr. MacArthur's commentaries and notes are proving to be very well suited for how I understand what I am reading.  I very much appreciate how, rather than lay out a few possibilities of what a verse might insinuate, he drops back to the Greek or Hebrew translation and simply presents that.  So this newfound form of entertainment?  I have decided not only to read the Bible cover to cover, but to study my way through it as well.  Taking notes and noting things I have questions about in my own mind, I will work slowly and prayerfully surely through God's Word.

Needless to say, I am very excited about the lack of TV and the emphasis on God's Word that is going on in my life right now.  So many times I just drift away, falling away from the fire that is the conflict between God's plan for my life and the World's.  But the time to face that fire is now, family.  If there's ever a society that needed the preservative salt of the "old ways" and the light of the Spirit shone into it's heart, it is the one in which we live.  Let's turn up the heat.

In Love,

Bob