Today's Lesson is from John 5:
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. . .42 I know that you do not have the love of God within you.
Some people I know who know their Bibles backwards and forwards also happen to be some of the meanest-spirited people I have ever met. They can quote what the Bible says chapter and verse, but somehow missed the whole point of the Bible in their own lives.
We do not worship the Bible. In other words, the Bible is not an end in itself. It is not to be used as a weapon for abuse nor a litmus test for inclusion and exclusion. Its purpose is to point us toward or "bear witness about" the things of Christ himself - his love, truth, mercy, and compassion.
The Apostle Paul said it himself, "If we have faith to move a mountain, yet have not love we are nothing." And to that Paul might have also added, if we have the Bible, yet somehow missed Christ's love then what we really have is just an old book.
The Scriptures are for finding life; find life in them and not death. Find Christ!
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