This section will be devoted to Bible Studies. Sometimes we will study a book. Sometimes just sections. We won’t be doing a lot of background or dating of books or writers. We just want to know what it tells us about GOD and what he expects of us.
Why do you read your Bible? How do you read the Bible?
Some read a few verses at a time. One person labeled it a Medicinal use of the Bible / “10 verses a day keeps the devil away” / they use it as a daily dose of medicine. It is hard to read the bible in paragraphs and come away with the message of the Bible. We don’t read any other books like that.
Then there is the verse approach. It’s when we are looking for a Word from GOD for ourselves. You read it through until a verse pops up and fits our situation, like reading your horoscope. More of a Devotional style. But that focuses on me more than on GOD.
Some (preachers especially) read it searching for those things they feel they need to tell others. They are looking for passages. Passages that can be translated into sermons.
Following such pathways often leaves most of the Bible unread.
Now, late in life, I am beginning to learn to read whole books at a time. And I’m seeing so many things I have overlooked before. Of course there are a lot of books that are very long. Admittedly, reading them is difficult. But reading in larger sections, really larger sections, we are able to see GOD more completely. Reading whole books we see both the goodness and severity of GOD (Rom.11:22)
We won’t be able to do that as we study through this web site, or even when we begin to put these lessons on videos. But you can begin to do that on your own.
Why do you read your Bible? How do you read the Bible?
The answer to both questions is the same — For The Sake Of Knowing GOD.
That will be our quest, as we read the books of the Bible. And as we read, we will seek to emphasize the topic of “aging.” (Whatever that means.) Remember, the Bible is really ageless. I don’t mean by that, that it is for any and all time periods, but rather that when it comes to GOD’s love, GOD’s calling, GOD’s commandments, GOD’s severity, GOD expects no less from us as we age; rather, perhaps, maybe (no, strike that – no maybe) He expects even more.
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