Opening the Bible預覽

The Bible builds our foundations

Did you know that what you build your house on matters—its foundation? If you don’t have solid materials placed the right way in the right place, then your house will fall apart.

In this life, the Bible is the only true foundation for us to live by. Every other foundation upon which we build our lives will eventually fall apart. You see, the Bible is the primary way God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. It’s the very foundation upon which we’re to build and base our lives! That’s why 2 Timothy 3:16–17 declares, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

Over and over, Jesus tells us if we know Him, then we know God and have seen God. And the primary way we get to know Jesus is through the Bible. It’s His powerful, authoritative, enlightening, and life-changing self-expression. It’s the very breath of God on each page! And it’s how we grow in relationship with Him, how we come to truly know who He is, and how we understand His heart, mind, character, nature, and will.

It’s truly a remarkable thing, an incomprehensible gift from the Lord, that we even have a Bible we can read whenever we want! It’s a blessing beyond my ability to express it to you. Consider that for almost all of human history, dating back to the Old Testament and through most of church history up until a few centuries ago, and even today in many places worldwide, Christians have not had their own personal copies of the Bible. They had to come together to hear someone read it to them. It really puts Paul’s instruction in 1 Timothy 4:13 (NIV) to “devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture” into perspective, doesn’t it? Because the public reading of Scripture was all most believers had since the dawn of the Church!

But now, we have printed Bibles and Bible apps at our disposal. In fact, many of us have various Bibles in our homes and maybe even one or two different Bible apps on our phones and tablets. I pray that whatever season you find yourself in right now, this study will inspire you to invest time into your relationship with Jesus, deeper knowledge of Him, and intimacy with Him. I pray you would soak your life more deeply in the voice of God that is revealed to us through the Word of God by the Spirit of God. I pray we would never take His Word for granted and instead develop a more profound love for it.

Prayer | Father, thank You for the Word. Thank You for Your wonderful, living, active, life-giving self-expression, Your very breath on a page. Help me, Lord, to be devoted to the public and private reading of the Word, to build my life daily upon Scripture, and to allow Your Spirit to change me through it. Amen.