I guess you could say I am a typical male. When I take something out of the box I rarely look at the instructions. I figure I can pretty much figure out how to put something together by myself or how to work something without reading the instructions. Most of the time when I do this, it has pretty horrible results. You would figured I would have learned by lesson by now but sadly I haven't. I still hate reading the instructions.
A lot of people are just like me. Not in the sense of not wanting to read the instructions from a particular product but when it comes from God's instruction book The Bible.
There are all sorts of stats and polls out there that talk of the general lack of Biblical knowledge inside the local Church. II Timothy 3:16 says, " All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." Paul told his young disciple Timothy that all scripture is from God and is profitable. That means it has value and worth.
Someone once told me that they have a hard time understanding the Bible. I told them I agree, even today there are a ton of things I don't understand about Holy Scripture. Here is the thing, I don't sweat the stuff I don't know, what I try to do is obey the things I do know and understand. I figured if I would just do that then God would be able to trust me with more of His truth. “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much."(Luke 16:10 ESV)
Just like an instruction book is given by the manufacture of that particular product for you to use since they built the product they would rightly know how to use it to it's fullest, so too is God's Word in your life.
Psalm 139:14 says that you are "fearfully and wonderfully made" by God. He knows what's best for you because He created you. It would be the height of cruelty if He didn't leave some type of instruction book for us to use so we can get through this life.
Well He did and it's call the Bible. Make read and studying the Bible a priority in your life and obey those things you know to do and see how much better you life will be.
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