Why Read the Bible and Why is the Bible so Important? 10-22-08

Why Read the Bible and Why is the Bible so Important?

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

Have you ever thought of why to read your Bible? I know. As a little kid from a Christian home. I always have to go to Church and do all those stuff on Sunday. Maybe because of this during my 3rd-5th grade, my relationship with God was invisible. There was no relationship at all. In 6th grade, I started to learn about God and about the relationship I had with God. Maybe it was in my future that God has put me into the point of reading my Bible. Why?

The Bible has many many passages. It was the word of God. It protects you and mature you physically and spiritually. How? Like if you had peer pressure and you know a passage from the Bible, then that passage might help calm you down or help you fight that you should have a positive attitude. Like everyone has temptation and I tell you, when I had to fight those temptation, I used praying and also Bible verses that helps me calm down. For now my favorite verse is Romans 13:14 because it tells me to stay with Jesus Christ rather than to think about temptation. (go and read your Bible to find my favorite verses).

The word of God is a really powerful object. From Hebrews 4:12, it said that the word of God is powerful and sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword.

John 1: 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The amazing thing about the word of God/Bible is that God created the Bible. I mean not like God wrote it even though He told others to write it but God put the word into the Bible. He created this. The ones who wrote the Bible was given the words to write from God. It is really amazing because God has given the word of God to us so that we can use the word of God to help us. Think about this. Without the Bible, then there would be no record and if there is no record then we wouldn't know Jesus Christ. If we didn't know Jesus Christ, we would die and would never see our Heavenly Father. Also without the Bible, we wouldn't have evidence about Christianity. So the Bible is a very important book in our life that guide us.

Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.

I Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.