HOW TO READ THE BIBLE PART 5: A LIFE SPENT IN THE WORD

DO I KEEP READING THE BIBLE OVER AND OVER?

In a word? Yes! As the title of this last section of our Bible series reads, the best way to be in the Word is for life. 

It is a living Word. This means that you could read the same verse a billion times over, and the Holy Spirit still might show you something totally new on that billionth time.

We also believe that being in the Word is good for your soul—one of the best things for your soul, in fact. It is crucial to your walk with Christ to be in His Word constantly. Just because you’ve read the Bible all the way through more than a handful of times doesn’t mean you’re done with it. It is our guidebook; one of our main access-ways to Jesus Himself.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE READ A CERTAIN BOOK OR CHAPTER HUNDREDS OF TIMES?

There is no limit to the number of times you can read parts of Scripture. You might read it once specifically to study its genealogical elements; another time to just let the Holy Spirit speak, to praise and worship Him through the Words; and another time to better understand its meaning. You will likely hear numerous sermons on the same passage in your life, but there is always going to be value in that. 

We read Scripture again and again because it is God’s Word, and He is always in it, breathing it, and revealing new things through it.

WHAT DOES A LIFE LIVED IN AND THROUGH AND BY THE BIBLE LOOK LIKE?

What does being “in” the Word, then, even look like?

What does living by the Bible look like?

Well, join the club of those of us who have stumbled along the way and continued on the narrow path. Living by the Word ultimately looks like a daily death to self; picking up our cross and following Jesus; humbling ourselves so that He might be exalted. When we posture ourselves before Him in this way, we recognize our need for the Word, we desire to be in it, and we allow God to challenge, convict, comfort, and change us through it. 

And, when He does, we obey and submit to His rule and way. When His Word confronts us, we “put off the old man,” and put on the new ways of Christ. We repent, turn from sin, and follow Him.

Friends, we pray that you would do just that today. We pray for a lifetime of living in God’s powerful, precious, and perfect Word.