You may have in the past started to read the Bible. Maybe even tried the straight through approach starting at Genesis and chances are you made it to Leviticus and gave up. Let's face it. The Bible is not always easy reading. It requires attention and effort, and it may even require a little help. I know from personal experience that it has been very productive for my spiritual growth to encounter the wisdom of godly men and women that God has allowed to cross my path. The scripture tells us about an Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:31-35 who was reading the scriptures and encountered some godly wisdom…Philip was told to go near him and stay there. As he heard the Ethiopian man reading the scripture he asked him, "Do you understand what you are reading?" The Ethiopian looked up from the book of Isaiah and answered," How can I he said, except someone should explain it to me?" Then Philip using the same scripture that the man was reading explained the good news of the Savior, which lead to the man’s spiritual conversion.
God has not laid out truth in complete clarity for all men to see. According to Proverbs 25:2a Solomon wrote: "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: The truth will come, but it may come slowly. It may come with considerable effort. Sometimes we need a guide, yet each of us individually must search out the answers for ourselves. II Timothy 2:15 tells us to “Study to show ourselves approved unto God, workman that needs not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word and Truth…. ….this scripture is telling us to study God’s Word, doing our utmost to present ourselves before God, approved and accepted because of the effort that we have made; working servants who have no cause to be ashamed, because we are making great effort in analyzing and accurately dividing and rightly handling the Truth in the Word.
The person who is determined to search and study the Scriptures daily, comparing what he is told with what God says, will be a hard person to deceive. "The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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" (Hebrews 4:12). In (Acts 17:11) the scripture says that “The Bereans (a group of people) were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”
So, get out your Bible, some paper and pen...maybe a journel and get at it…study for yourself….taste and see that God is good!
The person who is determined to search and study the Scriptures daily, comparing what he is told with what God says, will be a hard person to deceive. "The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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" (Hebrews 4:12). In (Acts 17:11) the scripture says that “The Bereans (a group of people) were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”
So, get out your Bible, some paper and pen...maybe a journel and get at it…study for yourself….taste and see that God is good!
I love you and am praying for you today!
Bren
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