Useful For Life

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17

John Ortberg, in his book “The Life You’ve Always Wanted” writes: “The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Some churches give people the idea that the only way to transformation is knowledge. There is an assumption that as people’s knowledge of the Bible rises, their level of spiritual maturity rises with it.

… Knowledge about the Bible is an indispensable good. But knowledge does not by itself lead to spiritual transformation.

When Paul urged the Christians at Rome to “be transformed by the renewing of your minds,” he was thinking of far more than just the acquisition of information.

“Mind” refers to a whole range of perceiving, understanding, valuing, and feeling that in turn determines the way we live.
…While knowledge is vital and should be prized, it also poses some dangers. It often demolishes humility.

The sobriquet “know-it-all” is never used as a compliment.

The Bible itself contains some warnings: “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”

Both human experience and the Bible teach that increased knowledge – even knowledge of the Scriptures – does not automatically produce transformed people.”

Yet, it is a fact that the Bible can transform life.

“The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.” – Sir William Blackstone

“I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.” – Psalm 119:45