David
Know the Bible
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There’s a difference between having the Bible in your hands and having the truth alive in your heart. You can sit under the Word, quote the Word, even argue the Word, and still miss the One the Word is pointing to. That’s not a knowledge problem. That’s a sight problem.
Those two men on the road to Emmaus had the Scriptures. They had the promises. And they had Jesus Himself walking right beside them. But until He broke that bread, the text says their eyes were opened and they knew Him ~Luke 24:30-31. Then it says He opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures ~Luke 24:45. Catch that. The Scriptures didn’t change. Their eyes did.
That’s the issue right there. We think if we just read more, study harder, or stack up more verses, we’ll get it. But God says the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God… neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned ~1 Corinthians 2:14. You can have the right book and still come to the wrong conclusion if the Spirit of God is not opening your understanding.
Jesus looked straight at the most Bible-saturated group of His day and told them, Ye search the scriptures… and they are they which testify of me, and ye will not come to me that ye might have life ~John 5:39-40. They weren’t ignorant. They were blind. They had information, but they rejected the Person the information revealed.
So here’s where it gets real. This isn’t about “those people out there.” This is about us. Every time we open the Bible, we are either coming humbly to receive what God says, or we are coming to confirm what we already think. One posture leads to light. The other keeps you in the dark while holding a Bible in your hand.
That’s why the psalmist prayed, Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law ~Psalm 119:18. And again, The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple ~Psalm 119:130. God gives light, but He gives it to the one who comes ready to receive it, not rewrite it.
So the question isn’t whether we’re reading Scripture. The question is whether we’re submitting to it. Because until the Lord opens our eyes, we can stare straight at the truth and still never see it.
Those two men on the road to Emmaus had the Scriptures. They had the promises. And they had Jesus Himself walking right beside them. But until He broke that bread, the text says their eyes were opened and they knew Him ~Luke 24:30-31. Then it says He opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures ~Luke 24:45. Catch that. The Scriptures didn’t change. Their eyes did.
That’s the issue right there. We think if we just read more, study harder, or stack up more verses, we’ll get it. But God says the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God… neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned ~1 Corinthians 2:14. You can have the right book and still come to the wrong conclusion if the Spirit of God is not opening your understanding.
Jesus looked straight at the most Bible-saturated group of His day and told them, Ye search the scriptures… and they are they which testify of me, and ye will not come to me that ye might have life ~John 5:39-40. They weren’t ignorant. They were blind. They had information, but they rejected the Person the information revealed.
So here’s where it gets real. This isn’t about “those people out there.” This is about us. Every time we open the Bible, we are either coming humbly to receive what God says, or we are coming to confirm what we already think. One posture leads to light. The other keeps you in the dark while holding a Bible in your hand.
That’s why the psalmist prayed, Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law ~Psalm 119:18. And again, The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple ~Psalm 119:130. God gives light, but He gives it to the one who comes ready to receive it, not rewrite it.
So the question isn’t whether we’re reading Scripture. The question is whether we’re submitting to it. Because until the Lord opens our eyes, we can stare straight at the truth and still never see it.
