HideGodsWord.com Blog

Some of my members may be wondering why I created HideGodsWord.com.  It all started 15 years ago, I was a freshman in high school, and was assigned to read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.  In this futuristic science fiction book we learn of a society where creative thought is no longer considered acceptable.  Books and reading are outlawed and firemen go around burning down the houses of citizens who have hidden books in their homes.  Eventually the main character Guy Montag, a firemen himself, starts hiding books in his own house.  After being turned in for hiding books he flees the authorities and joins a secret society of outlaws who have hidden famous works of literature in their minds.  During his escape he manages to memorize part of the Bible with the hope to one day rewrite it.  Fahrenheit 451 is a powerful predictive book of what America could look like if the minds of its citizens continue to be dulled by television and media.

The ideas in the book led to the creation of HideGodsWord.com,  Gods Word is so important that we must keep it hidden in our hearts just like Guy Montag.  I constructed this website to inspire and motivate the global community of believers in Jesus Christ to take it upon themselves to memorize the Bible.  I know that together we can memorize the entire bible.

Jesus said “If you love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15), so why don’t we?  I know what you are thinking:  “I do love Jesus and I do keep His commandments.”  To this I say, What are His commandments?  How do you keep them?

There is no mystery to solve, no life long quest that we must endure to find the answer to this question.  The answer is right under our face, Jesus told us directly saying “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”(Matthew 22:37-39) .  So we are commanded to love.

It seems pretty easy to love God.  He is our creator, he deserves our love, He is love.  John said “We love Him, because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19).

Now for the hard part “love your neighbor as yourself”.  Do we really love our neighbor as ourselves?  Do we put stranger’s needs in front of our own needs?  Do we love our neighbor so much that we give our own life to save theirs?  Hardly, some won’t part with $1.00 much less their own life for a stranger.  If we truly loved our neighbor wouldn’t we share the news of Christ continually without ceasing?  Wouldn’t we be considered freaks to this world, strangers in a foreign land?

The ultimate question is are we living our lives for Jesus, are we following his commandments.  Do we stand out from a crowd as followers of Christ, lovers of all or do we blend in with the rest.  How else can we show Jesus our love for him except the way he instructed: through loving God first and our neighbor as ourselves second?

How is it that we have been given Gods Word and can so easily ignore it? How is it that in some parts of the world people are sacrificing their lives to spread the Word of God but in our cozy country we can let is collect dust on the night stand? Why do we have over 20 English translations that we ignore while nations around the world wait for a first translation.

I don’t understand how we start out as a nation teaching our children to read just for the purpose of reading the Bible and slowly become a nation of non-readers. A slow progression has taken us from readers of the Bible to ignorers of it.

Gods word is flawless (Proverbs 30:5) , living and active (Hebrews 4:12); he has given it to us as a way to learn about who He is and why we are here. Yet many of us continue to run around looking for answers that we could so easily find if we would simply look.

He created us with a purpose and that purpose is clearly stated in the Bible if we would just take the time to read it and get to know our Creator.