Why Read The Bible?
We read and study the Bible because it is God’s Book.
In it He has spelled out clearly, in writing and in like human flesh, all that the human species lost when the first ones used their built-in power of free will, part of the package called The Image, to disobey their Creator’s orders and chose to discard their dependency on Him and lean on their own as-yet-unformed understanding. He transcribed it by the hand of human beings whose quickened lives and hearts were wholly given to God and His purpose established in the physical Creation from the moment He said, “Let there be light!” When He spoke it was His alive Word who became flesh to fulfill His purpose as The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. That purpose is Redemption, which in one word tells where we are from and where we are going. A species specifically designed for communion with their Creator is given over, by their own choice, to an antagonistic environment and a set of tests by which to re-qualify for the Main Event, eternal communion with God and all the Redeemed. The qualification – restored exclusive trust and reliance on their Father’s Son.
We read and study the Bible because it is God’s Book.
It gives the keys that open the doors and windows through which we may glimpse and become a resident of absolute, unalterable Reality, while yet inside the man-u-fractured environment which denies any absolute.
We read and study the Bible because,
As we do, our Creator’s face becomes clearer as our hearts discover the wonder of His infinite intricacies and the joy of the interaction and communion in His Persons.
We read and study the Bible because,
As we do, our Father’s heart invades the dark isolation of our hearts and our spirit is resurrected to life, His Life in us, to be the approachable physical presence of His redeeming personality, and His gathering nature. His childlike wonder and gushing joy filled with an overflowing part of Himself, with boots on the ground wherever He puts us.
We read and study the Bible because it is God’s Book.
Our God, our Creator, our Father who by the power of His Spirit gathers us to Himself to show His glory walking, talking, touching, loving, working, resting, singing, thinking, creating… all in flesh and blood, a Body of human bodies surrendered for the joy of knowing Him and showing Him to each other and to the worlds He has made.