September 27

The Lord has established for us a resource that is intended to prepare us for life, for any eventuality. The Bible is His love letter, His instruction book, His roadmap through the mountains and valleys of human experience. If we will read it, study it with the same diligence we would apply to any vital set of guidelines, it will serve us well.

What is God’s purpose in giving us such a weighty volume to peruse? Doesn’t He realize how consumed we are with simply living life? Isn’t He aware that we really haven’t the time to read about life because we’re too busy getting through it? He doesn’t see it that way.

He, our Designer and Maker, knows our frame and His intent is to help us to become all we have the potential to be. In John 16:33 Jesus stated it this way, “I have told you these things so that in Me you may have confidence. In the world you may have tribulation and trials and distress, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world!”

If we don’t use the Bible as our manual for living life, life may take us by surprise. We may not see the best or the worst things as they’re coming and we won’t know how to graciously possess the blessings or how to successfully overcome the challenges. But, if we have Jesus’ Word hidden in our hearts, we will go confidently forth, knowing He is with us and He has equipped us to overcome!