“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.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV
In 2 Timothy chapter 3, Paul is writing to Timothy about how people may act as time goes on. He wants Timothy to remember the teaching he has received from Paul about Jesus is from scripture. Scripture is from God. He told each person who wrote the different verses, chapters and books of the Bible, what to write.
He gave them the inspiration to write, the words to write, the ability to remember what happened at times in their lives so it could be recorded. As the disciples, prophets and followers of Jesus wrote what God instructed them to write, it became part of them. Writing was not a simple task in the first century and before. There was parchment paper that had to be acquired, a quill was used that had to be dipped back in a bottle of ink very often. There were no stacks of paper, pencils, pens or computers to make recording what happened easy.
We are not privileged to be living in a time when we are seeing events first hand that are then recorded and become part of scripture. However, the recording of the scriptures from Moses’s time up through Paul’s time preserves what God wants us to know. This allows us to utilize the scripture as a manual or a road map of how God wants us to live.
The only way that we are able to know what is in the Bible, all the wonderful information that is in the scriptures, is to read the Bible. Even though it was not an easy undertaking to write down all the events during that time in history, it is easy for us to read it. We have not only the physical copies of the Bible, but we have electronic verses, we have the Bible on our phones. There is no reason that we can give to say that we don’t have access to the Bible.
What does your routine of reading the Bible look like? Are you in God’s word daily, weekly or sporadically?
It is important to be grounding ourselves in God’s word since that is where the information is about how we are to live. The scriptures also contain information about God so we are able to learn more about Him. As we live life, we usually have an idea of where we would like to end up, how we want our lives to go. As a Christian that idea hopefully is wanting to live life according to God’s will. If you are not in God’s word, His road map for us, then it is difficult to know where you are going. It is difficult to know what God wants you to do or the path He wants you to take.
I encourage you to spend time in God’s word, He had it written just for you, for me and for all of His children so we could stay connected to Him and learn from Him.