Bible Reading “Hearing from God”

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Ps 119:105). 

You may have seen the popular meme from a few years ago of a man looking up into the heavens asking, “God, would you please speak to me?” The man hears nothing and continues to walk down the sidewalk when he stumbles over a Bible on the ground and shouts out, “What is that doing there?!” This is, unfortunately, the attitude of many Christians. We want direction, we want guidance, we need an answer. Fortunately, we have many answers and much guidance neatly compiled into a book: The Bible. Now, it is true that God speaks in mysterious ways and by various means, however, the clearest path to enlightenment is by reading God’s Word.

“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” (2 Tim 3:16-17). 

God intends to use you. Actually, He can use anyone to accomplish His will. Whether it be in our weakness (like King David) or in our strength (also like King David), God is wiser and more powerful than we can imagine. Even still, He wants us to “be equipped for every good work” and to be formed and shaped by His Word. Will the apprentice merely rely on his master's skill his whole life, or will he be disciplined to learn the tools of the trade himself? The Lord has revealed His Word to us so that we might be transformed by it. Imagine the life you could live as someone trained for righteousness; as someone molded into a vessel for the Master’s use by the Master himself? 

Pick up your Bible, read, and listen. Open your eyes. Open your ears. Open your heart. “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly…” (Col 3:16).

Bro. Tyler Williams