"ALL SCRIPTURE!"

2 Timothy 3:12-17                        (ESV)
"12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in CHRIST JESUS WILL BE PERSECUTED,
13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in CHRIST JESUS.
16 "ALL SCRIPTURE" is breathed out by GOD and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 that the man of GOD may be complete, EQUIPPED for every good work."




With the infatuation with social media sites these days and a desire to "get the news first" that appears to be driving our information appetites, there seems to be a growing tendency of NOT hearing from GOD about the things that really matter in life.  In my experience, GOD most often speaks to mankind through HIS WORD, the HOLY BIBLE!  Yet the "love affair" that mankind once had with The ALMIGHTY and HIS direction through scripture is waining.  Some people want to tell us the have "a word from GOD", but don't want to back up "their word" with scripture.  Such dispersions can sound really "grounded" in The WORD, but unless GOD's WORD is the basis for a statement, there is a good chance it is flawed in someway.  1 Corinthians 3:19 says the wisdom of "this world" is FOOLISHNESS with GOD!

Hebrews 4:12 says "For the Word of GOD is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword,...........".  In 2 Timothy 3:12, when GOD tells us "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in CHRIST JESUS WILL BE PERSECUTED," HE doesn't leave room for a lot of misinterpretation!  If we stand on GOD's Word and obey HIS precepts, WE WILL BE PERSECUTED, simply because "this world" says there is no other way to accomplish righteous actions.  GOD does HIS greatest work when there seems to be no other way, when it seems hopeless!  Remember the Red Sea?  GOD works miracles when there seems to be no other way, because HE IS THE ONLY WAY (John 14:6)!

When will we get back to worshipping and honoring "ALL SCRIPTURE" for what it truly is, the Word of GOD ALMIGHTY, the CREATOR of the Universes?  Mankind has become so "knowledgable" (Daniel 12:4) that they sometimes act like they don't need GOD or HIS intervention.  It has been said "Within the covers of the BIBLE are the answers for all the problems men face" and there is no greater non-scriptural statement that has been made in recent times.  The ability to find answers within "ALL SCRIPTURE" does not take a Bible Scholar with great theological backgrounds.  James 1:5 says "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask GOD, who gives GENEROUSLY TO ALL WITHOUT REPROACH, and it will be given him".  The thing I have to do is get away from the "gotta have it now" mindset and TRUST HIM to reveal it to me when I study "ALL SCRIPTURE"!!!