WRITTEN TO BE READ! by Ray Eddy

Some people think the Bible is a difficult book to understand. It is true that there are things in the Old Testament (O.T.). that seem strange until you view them in the light of the New Testament (N.T.). No one can fully understand the Old until they come to grasp the New. Some of it we’ll understand better bye and bye.

If the Bible had been written by lawyers the text, “Give us this day our daily bread,” might sound something like this:

We respectively petition, request, and entreat, that due and adequate provision be made, this date and date first above inscribed, for, satisfying of petitioner’s nutritional requirements and for the organizing of such methods of allocation and distribution as may be deemed necessary and proper to assure the reception by and for said petitioners, of such quantity of cereal products hereinafter called BREAD) as shall, in the judgment of the aforementioned petitioners, constitute sufficient amount.

Thank goodness the N.T. was written for our understanding, written by men full of the Spirit, as revealed to them by God. In the Message, 2 Timothy 3:16- 17 reads: “Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another-showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.”

Read it, obey, and grow thereby!

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