The word: spirit and life

If God’s Word is the primary way He reveals Himself, what does my current relationship with Scripture say about how well I know Him?

You don’t truly know a man or woman until you’ve had deep conversations with them, because it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

In the same way, how could you truly know God without knowing His Word? How else would you hear the stories of His power?

He parted the Red Sea, brought down the walls of Jericho, won battles without His people even fighting, and raised Jesus from the grave after three days?

Even the keepers of His tomb trembled at the earthquake and fell as though dead. 

How would you know of His mercy in sparing the righteous when the world was steeped in sin, or of His forgiveness and patience in the face of rebellion?

You would not. Some try to know God by looking within themselves, but what can come out of you except what is already in you?

Our knowledge of God is not based on what we feel or assume about Him; it is based on what He has revealed in His Word.

God designed it that way. He intends for every person to know Him through what He has spoken.

His Word is alive and true. Jesus said, “The words I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”

The Word carries the same creative power to give life to the open-hearted, just as it did at the beginning of creation.

These accounts are preserved in Scripture, and though generations have come and gone, not a single part has lost its power.

These precious words still carry life today, just as they did when they were first spoken.

The Bible is the primary source of knowledge about God!