“BREATHED OUT BY GOD!”

2 Timothy 3:16-17                                       (ESV)

“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.”  

The WORDS written in the HOLY BIBLE are “BREATHED OUT BY GOD”.  Sure, HE may have used humans to pen the writings, but I’m sure that there are some “unpublished” material from Moses through the John of Patmos that GOD didn’t include in HIS WORD.  Moses was a murderer, Saul (later known as Paul) was a murderer!  Yet GOD used these people to pen AT LEAST the first five books of the BIBLE and then used one to write a large portion of the New Testament!  The thing that makes Scripture “special”, is that it is “BREATHED OUT BY GOD”!

Yet, we treat the HOLY BIBLE as though it is a foreign document, something that isn’t essential to our lives?  If we REALLY Believed that the BIBLE is “BREATHED OUT BY GOD”, why don’t we look to Scripture to solve the problems that face our modern society?  Just in the passage above, Scripture teaches us that it is “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of GOD may be complete, equipped for every good work.”  If I really Believed that Scripture is “BREATHED OUT BY GOD”, shouldn’t my life reflect my Belief???

President Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying “Within the covers of the BIBLE are the answers for all the problems men face."  The Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 3:16 that “All Scripture is “BREATHED OUT BY GOD””!  There are some who say that President Reagan was senile and a little looney, but 1 Corinthians 2:14 says “The “natural person” does not accept the things of the SPIRIT of GOD, for they are folly to him, and HE IS NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM because they are spiritually discerned.”  

When will we accept that John 4:24 is TRUTH when JESUS says “GOD is SPIRIT, and those who worship HIM  must worship in SPIRIT and TRUTH"?  We, namely “I”, must seek HIS SPIRIT and cease looking for HIM to reveal HIMSELF in the physical!  Since HE is SPIRIT, we can’t SEE when something is “BREATHED OUT BY GOD”!  We can only hope to refine our Spiritual eyes to SEE evidence of HIS PRESENCE while our sight is focused on JESUS!!!