The Book of God

Currently Reading: Lectures for my Students by Charles Spurgeon

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, thorugh whom also he created the world (Heb 1.1-2).

in your presence there is fullness of joy, at your right hand are pleasures forevermore (Ps 16:11).

The vast treasure and beauty that is the Word of God is seemingly unfathomable. When we step away from the Bible and fail to let ourselves be saturated in it, we can't help but become malnourished and feel spiritually anemic. There is a "warmth" that comes from being acquainted with the Scriptures and reading the book of God that is unlike any other. It re-presents to us the promises of God's grace that are so easy for us to forget.

Since the idea of grace is so counterintuitive to our very nature, we must constantly be reminded of what God says about us rather than what we say about ourselves. Being alone with my Bible after a dry spell does much for my conscience. Through the Scriptures, the Holy Spirit reveals to me my sin and applies the healing medicine of the gospel to my heart. Simply put, when I am not immersed in the Bible, it is immensely more difficult for me to preach the gospel to myself, which I need to hear daily.

“I have thought I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God, just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence, I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing—the way to heaven, how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end He came from heaven. He has written it down in a book. O give me that Book at any price, give me the Book of God”
- (from the preface of Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley, originally published in 1771).