THE IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURE Part II

READ TO UNDERSTAND!

In reading this, then,

you will be able to understand my insight…

Ephesians 3.4

Wonderful!

Read to understand!

We can do this!

Just read. 

Read to understand something. 

Anything.

Whatever the Spirit shows you:  teaching, rebuke, correct ion, instruction…all for righteousness and holiness….

The Holy Spirit will show you what  He wants you to see,

and you will understand what He wants you to learn from it.

In reading…you will be able to understand…

Eph. 3.4

Your ability to understand will increase and never exhaust itself.

Keep reading and rereading.

The Scripture enriches a never-ending growth of friendship enriches your friendship and life with Jesus:

Blessed are those…who walk according to the Law of the Lord.

I will not be put to shame when I consider all Your commands.

I will praise You…as I learn Your righteous Laws.

I will obey Your decrees…

Wa according to the Law of the Lord…

His Commands…

Laws…

Decrees.

Walk…according to the Law of the Lord…

Consider all His Commands…

Learn His Laws…

Obey His Decrees.

Psalm 119.1-8

We can easily consider all God’s commands.  Just read them.  Read them all--every word from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22.

The Holy Spirit will speak to us throughout our readings.

As we read all the commands, we will always learn some of what we read. 

We will not learn all, no matter how much and how often we read.  This is God’s Word, a revelation of the eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God. 

But we will always learn more!  For eternity, there will always be more to marvel and wonder at.  The more we learn the greater our ability to learn more!

And, we will always obey some of what we learn.

We WILL Obey.  Not all, but some.  We will obey some of what we read and learn.  And there will always be more

Just as we will never know all the love of God, but always see, learn, and love more like God, so we will follow and obey God in all things as we read.

Nothing more is required of us but

to read to know and understand

what the Holy Spirit says us

according to our ability to read.

Nothing more is required but to read to know and understand.  Nothing.

I pray that you may grasp

how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…

a love that surpasses knowledge.

Ephesians 3.16-19

READ.

TO UNDERSTAND!