“Jesus replied, the most important one is this: Listen, Israel! The Lord our God is the only Lord” (Mark 12:29 GNT).
After Jesus was raised from the dead, He reprimanded His disciples for not understanding the Scriptures. They had thought the body of Jesus had been stolen because the body was no longer in the grave.
He explained to two of His disciples whom He met on the way to a village called Emmaus: “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:27).
Jesus showed them from the Scriptures, that the Word Himself was He that became flesh to suffer and to die, and afterwards return into His glory, the glory which He had before the world was created (see John 17:5).
The Word that became human was God Himself: “That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19). Jesus Christ is the Word that became human, and again He returned to the Word.
God wants us to seek and receive the knowledge of the true God through continuous and diligent study of the Scriptures. The Bible is the spiritual window through which we can see God. The Word is the only way and the door to the Father.
We should listen to the Scriptures because they are the very Words of God. All Scriptures are the spoken Words of the Father. Jesus says, “Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me” (John 6:45 GNT).
If you study the Bible as the Word that was spoken directly by the Father, then you are a disciple of the Word indeed. The Spirit of the Scriptures will teach you the Bible, and you will remain in His Word.
The Word is Jesus Christ our Lord, and He is the true and the only Teacher. Jesus says, “You call me Teacher and Lord, and it is right that you do so, because that is what I am” (John 13:13 GNT).
When the Bible becomes your Teacher you would discover that the Word is Lord. The Bible says, “The Lord will be king over all the earth; everyone will worship him as God and know him by the same name” (Zechariah 14:9 GNT).
God the Father has highly elevated the Scriptures, and gave the Word of God the name of Jesus Christ, “that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:11).
The Word of God is the Lord our God, as it is written: “For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?” (Psalm 18:31). The Holy Scripture is that living Rock and the Lord our God.
Therefore, the people who know their God shall be strong, and stay courageously loyal to His Word. “Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; happy are the people he has chosen for his own!” (Psalm 33:12 GNT).
PRAYER:
Heavenly Father, open my heart to love the Scriptures with all my heart, and with all my soul and with my entire mind, in Jesus name. Amen.
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Heavenly Father, open my heart to love the Scriptures with all my heart, and with all my soul and with my entire mind, in Jesus name. Amen.
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