![]() Jesus promised, “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20, NKJV). The Bible says, “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another” (Colossians 3:16). All over the world, Christians are coming together to read the Bible and share their insights. ![]() One of the most significant spiritual movements in recent decades has been the explosion in small group Bible studies. Although they may examine only a verse or two each day, God can use them to encourage you. Many people find daily devotional books based on the Bible helpful. Investigate spending part of your vacation at a conference center devoted to Bible teaching. Also check your local Christian radio station (if you live in a country that permits religious broadcasting) some of today’s most gifted Bible teachers are on radio. In addition, seek out a Bible class in your church or community where the Bible is faithfully taught. Listen carefully when your pastor preaches from the Bible. The Bible says that “God has placed in the church … teachers” (1 Corinthians 12:28). God has given some people a special gift to understand the Bible and teach it to others. So how can you discover the Bible’s message? How can the Bible become part of your life? Job said, “I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread” (Job 23:12). You cannot grow spiritually strong without it. The Bible is not an option it is a necessity. Yet many Christians are spiritually starved and weak because they ignore the spiritual “food” God has provided in the Bible. We need food in order to survive, and without food we’ll grow weak and eventually die. If I suggested that you stop eating for a few months, you’d ignore me-and rightly so. One reason is because we don’t realize how much we need it. Today, many people keep the Bible a closed book. Samuel was still a boy, but God answered his simple prayer: “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:9). ![]() You may never understand everything in the Bible, but you can understand something. But the Bible isn’t just for preachers and scholars! God wants to speak to you through His Word, and no matter who you are, the Bible can come alive to you. The Bible is big-so big that even the greatest scholar will never exhaust its riches. What place does the Bible have in your life? God wants to speak to you through its pages are you listening? Most of all, He wants you to come to know Him by discovering Jesus Christ, who is at the Bible’s center. God guided the authors as they wrote the different books. The Bible says, “For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21). The Bible isn’t just another ancient book of human wisdom-it is God’s Word, given to us to tell us how we can know God. ![]() The most important fact about the Bible, however, is that God watched over its writing, and He has preserved it down to the present time. Only a few decades after His ministry, the books of the New Testament were written and then accepted by Christians. The whole Old Testament was finished about four centuries before the time of Jesus. The first “collection” was probably the first five books of the Bible (often called the “Torah,” which is the Hebrew word for God’s Law). Those books were written over many centuries, and they were only gradually brought together into their present form. ![]() The Bible is somewhat like a library because it is actually a collection of books. ![]()
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