Verse: 2 Timothy 3:16-17
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.
Devotional Thoughts:
Why is it so difficult to learn new things?
I’ve tried to pick up guitar. I have an old guitar that was given to me several years ago, and it seems impossible to play. Frankly, it’s frustrating. Other people, friends of mine, can play and play very well. Some can even pick up a song they don’t know and play by ear.
When I play, it’s just one chord at a time. If I’m to change to a different chord, I generally need to take a second to find it and get ready to play it. Even more, my fingertips will get raw and sore, and it’s hard to play at all until they callous over.
Why can’t I learn to play guitar? Are my fingers too big? Are my guitar strings too close together? Do I just need to buy a more expensive guitar that will be easier to play? Do other people just naturally have the gift of guitar playing, and I don’t? Do I just not have the time it takes to learn how to play?
To leave my guitar metaphor, I know we’ve likely all made excuses and offered explanations about why we aren’t intentional about studying and learning our Bibles. I know I have. You likely have. And we see how good a grasp other people have of the Bible, and we think that we’ll never have that kind of insight and understanding.
It’s so easy to offer up those explanations. The Bible’s confusing. It’s hard to understand. I don’t have time. Life is too busy.
But if we really believe that God, the God of the universe, has actually compiled a book and provided it to us so that we may be equipped, how important must it be? If we really believe that, then we have to believe that His Word is much too important to only be read on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights.
The Bible says that all of Scripture is breathed out by God and is useful for equipping the servant of God. Essentially, it’s spoken by God and it’s used by God. God uses His Word in our lives. His Word both wounds and heals. It both teaches and rebukes. It both humbles and makes wise. It tears down and builds up.
Points to Ponder:
Friend, are you regularly in the Word of God? This is truly a question we must all ask ourselves.
Hebrews 4:12 says that the Bible is “living and active.” It’s not outdated or obsolete. It’s active. It’s relevant today for our lives.
If we consider the Bible to be the authority in our lives, doesn’t it make sense that we would constantly be in the Word of God?
Grab a Bible today. Start somewhere, start anywhere, and begin to read. I’m confident God will meet you in His Word.
Blessings,
Zac
