God Doesn’t Fit Into a Box
Why do so many Christians try to put God in a box? They make rules. They decide which parts of the Bible are for today and which ones are used up and only applied to the past. They use their rules as a way to decide which gifts Jesus gives to believers to use in our current generation. They decide which way is OK to hear form the Lord. They cut away at the Bible and remove any part they don’t want to acknowledge.
What kind of people would do this to God’s word? IMHO I believe they’re people who have a need to control God and the people around them. They believe they are intellectuals and they try to prove their theories with books outside of the Bible. They use books written in the flesh to prove their thought about the inspired word of God. They use the ideas of other people to prove their ideas to the folk around them but the real person they are trying to prove right or wrong is God.
I’ve even run across people who will tell you that all scripture is inspired but a particular comma was put in the wrong spot and the scripture really means something else. You may as well tell me that perfect God made a mistake.
Either you believe that the Bible is God’s Word or you don’t. There is no middle ground and there is no carving the life out of the Word of God, just because you can’t handle what’s written. Here’s why. The proof is in the Bible.
2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”
Inspire – to guide or control by divine influence. God guided or controlled the writing of scripture.
In Psalm 119:160 the the psalmist writes of God… “The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.”
Those two scriptures make it pretty clear to me that God was in control of the writing of the Bible, that it’s all true, and it’s not changing.
I love what Jesus says in John 14:26. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”
This tells me that I don’t need a college degree, a study guide, or someone else to tell me what God’s Word means because there can’t possibly be a better teacher than the Holy Spirit and He’s going to teach me. And for those who would say, “well He was talking to His disciples and since the disciples are dead, this has passed away.” I say the Holy Spirit that lives in me is the very same one that raised Jesus from the grave. The Holy Spirit is eternal.
You just can’t go wrong trusting God. You either believe Him or you don’t, there is no other option. The Bible is not a salad bar that you may pick and choose which Items you want to keep and what foods you wish to skip.
This sort of shopping cart mentality is wrong and it robs God’s people of beautiful blessings. It deprives believers of receiving the fullness God has for them.
Blessings to you and yours. May the Word of God spring to life for you.
Barbara
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