Trust the Author

The Bible is centuries old and contains many different types of writing: poems, historical accounts, names-of-who-fathered-who, visions from God, etc. It can be a bit of a head-scratch in places. But this doesn't mean we give up reading it. People wrote the Bible through the power of the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16), and through the same Holy Spirit we are able to better understand it.

We are reminded: 'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For

his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets' (1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NLT).

There may be days when the Bible seems like a jumble of words and is overwhelmingly confusing, but God has given us the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what he wants us to see. The wells to the depths of Heaven's wisdom are right there for us, the 'message from God' is in our hands, and the Author himself wants to be our guide.



So what now? Sit with your Bible (app?) closed for five minutes. Ask God to join you, study with you and speak to you through what you're about to read. Then go to a passage you've struggled with before and see what happens.





— SCRIPTURE —

'But we understand...for we have the mind of Christ.' 1 Corinthians 2:16 NLT
— SOULFOOD —

2 Chr 25-28, John 12:20-36, Ps 102:12-17, Pro 27:10-12