“ALL SCRIPTURE!”

 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.”

It is almost baffling that as Believers we want to look at every source available for what others offer to answer the questions presented to “this world”, when we are continually instructed by “ALL SCRIPTURE” to TRUST in HIS WORD.  Yet most of humanity finds what “this world” considers as true to be TRUTH, even though our CREATOR says in John 14:6 “I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE”!  Looking for truth outside of TRUTH can be a confusing and dangerous conundrum (A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma)!  

The same CREATOR that spoke in John 14:6 inspired the Apostle Paul to write in his second letter to Timothy “ALL SCRIPTURE” is breathed out by GOD and 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”!  HIS WORD is PROFITABLE for TEACHING, even the spiritually immature when it glorifies HIS NAME!  

HIS WORD not only is PROFITABLE for TEACHING, but for REPROOF (conviction), CORRECTION, and for TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, EQUIPPING FOR EVERY GOOD WORK!  Why would anyone convolute HIS WORD with what “this world” offers as an alternative? “The enemy” comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10), yet we sometimes “prefer” to listen to his lies when THE TRUTH is TOO HARD for us to CHOOSE!  

We should store “ALL SCRIPTURE” in our hearts to cause us to avoid the traps and confines of “the enemy”!  OUR CREATOR formed us in our mother’s womb for a specific purpose, TO GLORIFY HIM!  HE gave us “ALL SCRIPTURE” for the same reason, TO GLORIFY HIM!  Achieving great worldly success IS NOT an indication of “being blessed”!  Exhibiting what we have instilled from “ALL SCRIPTURE” should be every Believers goal!!!