But the word of the Lord endures forever.”[a] Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you. (1 Peter 1:25) The famous President Abraham Lincoln once said of the Bible: “I have only to say that it is the best gift God has given to man.” Like the law of gravity, the Bible will never become redundant.” Many of the great servants of God that I have interacted go through the entire Bible at least once in a year. I have often asked them how they grew in the anointing and the grace of God. Their reply has been that this one habit of daily reading the Bible has brought upon them the mighty anointing of the Lord. The greatest benefit in reading the whole Bible often is that we become familiar with the context of every book in the Bible. This familiarity of Scripture gives us the ability to recognize when passages are being taken out of context. Thus we will not be tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting (Ephesians 4:14). There are many other things we would discover if we would make time each day to read the Bible. We would discover that our inclinations for sin would be less (Psalm 119:9-11). Our strength to do good things would increase (1Peter 2:2; Ephesians 3:3-5, 16, 17). Our patience in difficult times would be maintained (Acts 20:32; Ephesians 4:1-3). Our contentment would increase (1 Timothy 6:6). Our peace would multiply (Philippians 4:6-9; Psalm 85:8). Our love would be stirred as well as our joy (Hebrews 10:24; Galatians 5:22-23). We would desire more for our Creator (Psalm 31:23; Psalm 73:25; Deuteronomy 6:5-9). In addition to this, we would learn what the will of the Lord is (Ephesians 3:3- 4;5:17). We may also learn that we have been told many things about the Bible that are not true. This false information would cause us to have a distorted impression of the Scriptures. We can help avoid such distortions if we set a time each day for the reading and studying of Gods precious words.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:15:21 +0000
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