I acknowledge how important it is to do Bible Study carefully.
It is very easy to get caught up with my personal agenda when looking at scripture and then using verses and sections to conform to my will and give me the answers I want to my issues. Indeed it is so easy to read the bible like it’s my fortune-telling instrument, or my propaganda support that it helps me to approach even the most familiar scriptures with the least assumptions possible. (It’s not always possible, but it is certainly preferable.)
Bearing that in mind, it is still possible to read a verse or a section of scripture. I read an event taking place, I read God doing His thing and its consequences. Yet in as much as it’s talking about what happened then and there, it is loudly and clearly talking to me about where I’m at and what’s going on with me.
I was reading an episode in the book of Acts and as I did so, it was amazing how closely it mirrored things I was experiencing. Often I want to put it off and suggest God is talking about someone else, somewhere else and some-when else. It hits me every time, though, that in as much as I want to avoid it – God is talking to me, right here and right now.
He is not talking for the sake of it – as though He loves the sound of His own voice. He is talking for revelation to hit home to me about who He is and how that should affect me and my behaviour, my decisions, my thoughts in the various issues of life. Real life. Decisions about finances, relationships, career, pastime habits, political opinions, community engagement, church affairs – EVERYTHING.
He cares so much, that He talks. If only I had the ears to hear.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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