Exploring the hidden depths of Scripture
Not An Ordinary Book
The Holy Bible can be compared to the great seas and waters of the earth. They can both be said to bear you up and sustain you; they both hold untold riches and are unfathomable in their depths. They are both mysteriously sourced from on high and from the earth. The Books in the Bible can be compared to rivers which are all separate and unique yet they are all fed from the deep and from the heavens and flow in unity, coming together to form a whole. The showers that fall from the Heavens can be likened to the spoken Word of God that can bless the receiver.
When we go fishing in the Word of God we never know what we will bring to the surface - sometimes it requires a lot of patient waiting and meditating and then sometimes it’s something so great it will pull us off our feet and down to the very depths!
Jesus is the Word of God and it is by His Word that the heavens and earth were made. He spake and it was. The written Word when received into the heart will save, restore and heal - through the saving faith it brings in the Person of Jesus Christ Who is the Son of God. The Son of God is God incarnate (God in human form) because there was no other way, no other good enough to pay the price of sin - Jesus is the Way and the Door and it is only through Him that we can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Every time we open the Holy Word of God, we open up a treasure trove - very often the things we read are challenging and uncomfortable but, if we read and study with the Holy Spirit as our Guide then we will be given understanding and strength to follow as a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is God and it is through Him that the disciples could maintain the relationship that they had started with Jesus. Through Jesus they learned about how God is our Father; before Jesus returned to be with His Father He promised to leave with His disciples His Holy Spirit who, once He comes to dwell within us, will never leave us nor forsake us. God’s Holy Spirit will cause us to do the things we would rather not do and prevent us from doing the things that we should not do but are very prone to do!
The Holy Spirit of God is the only One Who can give us understanding when we read His Word. In the second verse of the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, we read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Come back with me to this point of time; all was still, there was no life, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Awesome! Now God moves by His Spirit; as He comes down upon the waters of the deep He must see His reflection on the face of the waters. In later chapters we read that God made man in His own image and now, at this time, He wants us to come to the waters of His Word to see our own reflection and how very far we have fallen away from that original image of God.
After that revelation we need to find Jesus - and we can find Him in His Word.
The Holy Bible can be compared to the great seas and waters of the earth. They can both be said to bear you up and sustain you; they both hold untold riches and are unfathomable in their depths. They are both mysteriously sourced from on high and from the earth. The Books in the Bible can be compared to rivers which are all separate and unique yet they are all fed from the deep and from the heavens and flow in unity, coming together to form a whole. The showers that fall from the Heavens can be likened to the spoken Word of God that can bless the receiver.
When we go fishing in the Word of God we never know what we will bring to the surface - sometimes it requires a lot of patient waiting and meditating and then sometimes it’s something so great it will pull us off our feet and down to the very depths!
Jesus is the Word of God and it is by His Word that the heavens and earth were made. He spake and it was. The written Word when received into the heart will save, restore and heal - through the saving faith it brings in the Person of Jesus Christ Who is the Son of God. The Son of God is God incarnate (God in human form) because there was no other way, no other good enough to pay the price of sin - Jesus is the Way and the Door and it is only through Him that we can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Every time we open the Holy Word of God, we open up a treasure trove - very often the things we read are challenging and uncomfortable but, if we read and study with the Holy Spirit as our Guide then we will be given understanding and strength to follow as a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is God and it is through Him that the disciples could maintain the relationship that they had started with Jesus. Through Jesus they learned about how God is our Father; before Jesus returned to be with His Father He promised to leave with His disciples His Holy Spirit who, once He comes to dwell within us, will never leave us nor forsake us. God’s Holy Spirit will cause us to do the things we would rather not do and prevent us from doing the things that we should not do but are very prone to do!
The Holy Spirit of God is the only One Who can give us understanding when we read His Word. In the second verse of the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, we read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Come back with me to this point of time; all was still, there was no life, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Awesome! Now God moves by His Spirit; as He comes down upon the waters of the deep He must see His reflection on the face of the waters. In later chapters we read that God made man in His own image and now, at this time, He wants us to come to the waters of His Word to see our own reflection and how very far we have fallen away from that original image of God.
After that revelation we need to find Jesus - and we can find Him in His Word.
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