Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing

There is an important claim the Bible makes that worth, very worth, everyone’s close, life-long attention. This claim about the Bible is really the linchpin upon which a person’s life, for time and eternity, will hinge… or be unhinged:

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16).

As I was thinking about this wonderfully profound, true, and very practical claim just the other day, I was treated to a song on the radio that more deeply rooted this truth—but in a quirky, whimsical, and completely unexpected way: a review a the impact that Hank Williams had on the history of music.

Check out the lyrics. “Google the song’s melody”. Please consider today, what does, “keeping the main thing, the main thing” mean to you, your family, and the folks God has providentially placed in your midst, today?

Dust On The Bible, by Hank Williams
“I went into a home one day just to see some friends of mine,
Of all their books and magazines, not a Bible could I find.
I asked them for the Bible. When they brought it, what a shame!
For the dust was covered o’er it, not a fingerprint was plain.

Chorus
Dust on the Bible, dust on the Holy Word,
The words of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the other books you’ll find, there’s none salvation holds,
Get the dust off the Bible and redeem your poor soul.

Oh, you can read your magazines of love and tragic things,
But not one word of Bible verse, not a Scripture do you know.
When it is the very truth, and it’s contents good for you.
But it’s dust is covered o’er it, and it’s sure to doom your poor soul.

Dust on the Bible, dust on the Holy Word;
The word of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the other books you’ll find, there’s none salvation holds,
Get the dust off the Bible and redeem your poor soul.

Oh, if you have a friend you’d like to help along life’s way,
Just tell him that the Good Book shows a mortal how to pray.
The best advice to give him that will make his burdens light,
Is to dust the family Bible trades the wrong way for the right.

Dust on the Bible, dust on the Holy Word
The word of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the other books you’ll find, there’s none salvation holds.
Get the dust off the Bible and redeem your poor soul.”

Until we gather at the Training Table again, please “Taste and see that the Lord is good…” (Psalm 34:8), each and every morning of the day.

JohnDoz