Ever wonder why you should read the Bible? Oh, sure, your pastor wants you to read it, but he’s paid to tell you that. Why take his word for it? Isn’t that a conflict of interest or something?
Give me one good reason why I should bother to read that dusty, 2,000-year-old book sitting on my coffee table.
Okay. Here goes: God uses the Bible to accomplish His purpose in our lives.
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”1
Rains does what it’s designed to do, right? It waters the earth so things grow. In the same way, Scripture accomplishes God’s purpose when we read it: we grow. Spiritually, that is.
Take me, for example. I used to be a total idiot. Now I’m just a partial idiot. To God be the glory!
Seriously, I was about as far away from God as one could be, and now I’m a pastor. What’s the deal with that?
The deal is this: God has a plan for us. But until or unless we spend time reading the Bible, He won’t be able to bring it to fruition. Translated, we’ll never reach our full potential.
So what will it be? Will you settle for whatever you can do with your life or with what God can do with your life?
If the Lord can take me—a total idiot—and do a complete makeover, what can He do for you?
Scripture. Read it.
“(My words) will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
1 Isaiah 55:10-11
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