“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” Romans 13:14.

Augustine of Hippo was born in North Africa to a pagan father and a devout mother. 

He grew up a prodigal who reveled in drunkenness, lewdness, and lust, but his mother kept praying for him. 

One day as Augustine sat in a garden, he overheard a voice chanting, “Take up and read!” 

Picking up a Bible, he opened it to Romans 13. 

As he read that page, especially verse 14 a light streamed into his heart and, as he later said, all the darkness of doubt fled away. 

Augustine went on to become one of the greatest thinkers in Church history.

It’s remarkable how Bible verses become shafts of light to illumine the darkness of our souls, and then afterward they illumine the footsteps of our ways. 

Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

Any good work arising from our commitment to the Word of God brings honour to the Lord and overcomes the attacks of the enemy. 

Let’s constantly “take up and read” the Bible, resolved to always walk in its light.

(PR)