Hillbilly Wedding

 

Marshall Dillon showed up just a bit too late to break up the hillbilly wedding on Gunsmoke.  He admonished the old woman, who had performed the ceremony that she was not qualified to perform weddings.  She screeched, “I may not be a Bona fide preacher, but the bride and groom both swore their undying love on this here Bible.”  And she held up the book.   Marshall Dillion was undeterred, “None of you can read because that book that you just swore on is Little Women, by Lousia May Alcott.”  Hey, don’t laugh too hard at the hillbillies because we do the same thing!  We can read, but we don’t read.   We leave our Bibles on the end table all week collecting dust.  We say what we think the Bible says.  We should be reading the Bible and letting it speak for itself!  Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”