WE MUST USE THE CORRECT INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL
“Study to show thy self approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15
I was prayed and asking the Holy Spirit for this post. I love to read from different versions of the Bible, the KJV is my “go to” version, but I love all the versions.
I was looking in one of my bookcases and I saw a book entitled “The Instruction Manual for Welding.” It was a very old book so I guess it is one of my husband’s books, he used to do a lot of welding for himself on the farm. It was funny to me, “I said ” yes, I do need an instruction Manual, but I don’t think this book will do me any good for my post.”
The verse above from 2 Timothy 2:15, jumped right in my spirit, to show ourselves worthy and unashamed before God is to STUDY the WORD OF GOD. Not only study the Word of God, but to KNOW the word of God, to digest it’s words in our spirit man, where nothing or no one can ever remove them from us.
If we study and read every version of the WORD, but yet do not rightly divide the words, (rightly understand the meaning of the words), we have accomplished nothing.
To rightly divide the WORD, I must read, study, and study some more, that is where the different versions of the Bible are so helpful to me. I also must look up the verses in a concordance, in Bible commentaries and other study helps I need to pray until I can see and understand what the Holy Spirit is trying to impart into my spirit about what these words I have read really do mean.
I have read so many scriptures time after time and gotten a different golden nugget of wisdom from them time after time, that does not mean the Word is not the same it just means that there is an unending supply of strength for us in every verse.
A verse of scripture can give us comfort when we read it and later we can read it again and we will notice something from the same verse that we never realized before and the very same verse will uplift and comfort us for the need for that moment.
My precious readers, read and study the WORD, in these times we live it is the only thing that can carry us through until Jesus comes to take His Bride home.
Blessings in Jesus Name, Love Gloria
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