Why Should You Read the Bible?

I took this in Arizona.

      How long have you been reading the Bible?  It's not always easy to start, and it's twice as hard to keep going.  But over time, you develop a habit.  I've been reading the Bible for many years, and it's a special experience when you read it with a new believer.  This week we started reading the Bible with some Christian students who got saved this year.  We told them you don't have to read too much, just 15-20 verses a day is a good way to build up a  habit.  


     

This weekend I was listening to some conference messages, and what spoke to me was the encouragement to read the Bible every day. I liked this point on one of the outlines:  “In our daily living we need to receive, experience, and enjoy the divine dispensing [from God's word] in a normal, gradual, and steady way.”  This makes me think about the tortoise's motto--Slow and steady wins the race!  It's not how fast you get through it--just read a little bit of God's word every day.  

Then the brother shared several verses that show how God Himself  gradually and steadily supplies us-I added some of my comments based on the message:

• Isaiah 50:4  The Lord Jehovah has given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to sustain the weary with a word.  He awakens me morning by morning; He awakens my ear to hear as an instructed one.  (The Lord wants us to come spend time in His word each morning.)

• 2 Corinthians 4:16  Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. (Our time each morning causes us to be renewed a bit more each day.)

• Isaiah 28:10  For his words are:  Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.  (It's important to read the Bible and other spiritual material throughout the day.)

• John 1:16  For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. (The word gives us grace--every day we should ask the Lord to give us that day's portion of grace.)

• Psalm 84:5-7  Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.  Passing through the  Valley of Baca, they make it a spring; indeed the early rain covers it with blessings.  They go from strength to strength, each one appears before God in Zion.  (The grace we enjoy becomes our spiritual strength!)

• Exodus 23:30   Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have become fruitful and inherit the land.  (As we enjoy the Lord's word and partake of His grace, the Lord will drive out little by little all the ugly things of our fallen nature.)

• 2 Corinthians 3:18  But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.   (This continual daily process causes us to be transformed from one degree of glory to another until we are like Him!)

 Other  College Student Dinner Fellowships on This Blog:

Do You Have the Assurance of Your Salvation? 

Getting Spiritual Food From God's Word

What are the Securities of Your Salvation?

Hearing God - Dinner Fellowship with College Students

Why Should a Believer Get Baptized?

Why Should You Read the Bible?

What Happens When You Read the Bible?

Coming to the Lord in His Word

Did You Know God Made You With Three Parts?

What is the Key to Experiencing Christ? - A Fellowship with College Students

Calling on the Lord Makes a Difference! 

What's the Secret the Third Generation of Mankind Found?

Why Are Just 2 Trees Mentioned in Genesis 2?

Discussion with College Students--What is the Church?

Why are There Two Trees in Genesis 2 Anyway?  Part 1

Why are There Two Trees in Genesis 2 Anyway?  Part 2