What good is the Bible? For some it is a book of history or good stories. For others it seems to be a list of guidelines or rules to follow that will keep you right with God. For others it is a book difficult to understand as the individual books don't seem to connect to each other.
Is the Bible our savior? Do we worship the Bible?
Richard Foster in his book, Life With God writes "The Bible does not in itself produce any magical effect. It reveals God's story that we might hear from the living God that this story is not only for a nomadic tribe thousands of years ago. It is not only for bands of persecuted followers of the Jesus way under threat from the Roman Empire. God's story is for all of us."
"This is why Jesus took the Pharisees to task for studying the Scriptures without allowing God's life to penetrate their own. 'You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you'll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me! And here I am, standing right before you, and you aren't willing to receive from me the life you say you want.' John 5:39-40 The Message."
The Bible is the message of God to point us to him. The Bible and knowledge of it is not the end...it is the beginning. The end is a relationship with God and that journey never ends. The more I read in Scripture the more I see Jesus and God. The purpose of the Bible is to open my heart to the amazing God of the Universe who wrote the book.
I have many love letters to my wife and from her over the years. I am not in love with the letters, but in love with the woman who wrote the words.
May we allow the words of the Bible to drive us to know and understand the God who created us. He longs to walk and talk with us everyday.
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