Tom's Red Print Meditation

Written upon beginning (February 1991):
Several people of God whom I respect have all told me to wait on the Lord. Last night a godly woman told me I am to listen to God. That is something I have not practiced much - indeed I was not even sure how to attempt to do it. I have now resolved to spend not less than two hours every day studying the red print in the Bible. Those are the recorded words of Christ Himself. If I feel the Lord speaking to me, I'll take down my thoughts. I know that God expects me to put into practice what He tells me, and this will help me focus on His words and His Way. Otherwise, it may go in one ear and out the other and I would waste His time and make a mockery of His Lordship over me.

Written upon completion (June 1991):
While I felt Jesus was elaborating on His teachings to me personally, the reader will have to decide to what extent the ideas thus presented are those of Jesus, or merely conjectures of my imagination. The reader must also decide whether Jesus is speaking the same words to himself, or indeed, whether the Lord would have that reader listen in just such a way.

Matt 3:16 Let it be so. It is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness. Just as my Father had things ordained for me to do, like getting baptized, so, too, He has things ordained for you to do - at this moment, the writing of this book.

Matt 4: 3-10 The Temptations of Jesus Beloved, you must know the Word just as the Roman soldiers knew how to fight with a two-edged sword because they all practiced two hours a day. "Take up the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." (Eph 6:17) You, too, should spend two hours a day in the Word. That is the Sword I have given you to parry the blows of the enemy! Note that in these temptations the only weapon I used against Satan was, "It is written" - the Word of God.