KNOWING YOUR BIBLE
January 23, 2022: Dear Friends, Thank you for following this blog as we attempt to help each follower learn and understand the Bible. In our current Bible series, our focus has been on coming to know and understand God.
The Bible is God’s Holy Word to each of its readers. As written in 2nd Timothy chapter 3: verse 16: “All scripture is inspired by God……” and by assumption, the more the Bible is read and studied, the more one will come to better understand and know God, who he is, how he thinks and how he wants us to think and act.
The focus on God in today’s blog will be on trying to understand how God thinks. There are several Bible passages of verses, that when contemplated on, will help the follower realize this is how God thinks and how he wants us to think and act. Most Bible verses allow us insight into how God thinks, but some scriptures are more specific in siting important direction and guidance that influences our thinking. Reading these scriptures helps us to know God better, helps us in our relationship to him and draws us nearer and closer to him.
Having a close relationship with God is our ultimate goal, influencing us as we go through life facing the challenges and responsibilities that we experience in everyday living. Our thinking changes, our attitudes expand, our decisions advance. One will begin to notice a positive difference in one’s life, that is progressive as one continues to meditate on God and his Holy Word.
Reading the Bible a few times a week or daily, as time allows, enhances our relationship with God. Spending a few minutes reading God’s Word brings peace and understanding within us that is carried with us throughout the day, day in and day out. Consider also adding to the Bible reading a daily devotional or two found in specially written devotional books This will help broaden prospective in our quest to gain understanding of God.
Each person has to develop one’s own method and pattern of Bible study. Jesus went out early in the morning while it was still dark to pray to God, as written in Mark, chapter 1, verse 35. Morning reading and worshiping God in prayer may be preferred due to being readily able to focus more clearly with a rested mind. Whenever and however one chooses to meditate on God and on God’s Word, is entirely each one’s priority and is usually determined by how comfortable one is in the worshiping process. Remember, the time spent in God’s Word is time spent between you and God. What could be more important than that, spending time with God?
A few verses, of the many in the Bible will be listed below that will reflect on how God thinks. All verses are from the New Revised Standard (NRS) version of the Bible.
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR BIBLE STUDY THIS WEEK! Bible Verses: Psalm, chapter 46, verse 10; Isaiah, chapter 41, verse 1; Exodus, chapter 20, verses 1-18; Leviticus, chapter 19, verses 15-18, and verses 33-35; Deuteronomy, chapter 6, verse 9, and chapter 30, verses 15-20; Isaiah,chapter 58, verses 6-11; Jeremiah, chapter 7, verse 25; Matthew, chapter 22, verses 34-40, and chapter 25, verses 34-40; and Galatians, chapter 5, verses 16-26.