Know God’s Will
2 Timothy 3:16,17 All Scripture is given by God. And all Scripture is useful for teaching and for showing people what is wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting faults and teaching the right way to live. Using the Scriptures, those who serve God will be prepared and will have everything they need to do every good work.
The single greatest malady amongst God’s people in many parts of the world is an ignorance of His Word. On the one hand, they yearn to know His will for their lives. On the other, they leave their Bible up on a shelf somewhere, gathering dust.
Paradoxically, it’s the Christians who live under severe persecution, many of whom don’t even own a Bible, who know God’s Word better, who cling to it more tightly, than those who live in freedom.
Back in my Bible college days, a lecturer who’d been pastoring churches for over thirty years told us that whenever he’d move to a new church, he would always assume a low level of Biblical literacy. And up to that point, he’d never been disappointed. Tragic, when you think about it.
Can I ask you, how deep is your knowledge of God’s Word? How much is your heart, your mind, immersed in Scripture, because …
2 Timothy 3:16,17 All Scripture is given by God. And all Scripture is useful for teaching and for showing people what is wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting faults and teaching the right way to live. Using the Scriptures, those who serve God will be prepared and will have everything they need to do every good work.
The greatest impediment to living a godly life, a life of peace and of power, of joy and of service, is our own sin. Seriously! And the greatest antidote to that is the power of God’s Word to transform our lives.
You can’t know God’s will if you’re ignorant of His Word.
And that’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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