So Here’s The Deal: Godize The Bible

Continued from last post...

We need to know the scriptures because they help us know God.

It’s like Paul prays for some people he loves. “I pray that you may have all wisdom and insight so that you can know God better” (Ephesians 1:17).

Of course this was even before the Bible had been introduced in its current book form. The bestselling book of all time was once what it still ought to be: A collection of scriptures and stories that told people all about God. And the point of the stories and the scriptures, and all wisdom and insight to boot was and is to know God.

There is not too much value in knowing Bible trivia (unless it’s a Jeopardy category. I always look smart when the Bible comes up as a category, that is if I remember to phrase my answer as a question. In my dreams I can hear me say, "Who is Zerubbabel?).

Trivia? No big deal. Knowing to win an argument? Makes me ill. But there is great value for life in knowing the God of the Bible’s scriptures and stories.

Sadly many people...

Politicize the Bible.

Criticize the Bible...

Liberalize the Bible...

Conservatize the Bible...

Legalize the Bible...

Baptize the Bible (it all begins in Acts 2:38 for these good folks. The Old Testament is relegated to VBS and kid's lessons)...

Supersize the Bible (I don’t mean GIANT print, I mean make the Bible bigger than God Himself. I’m speaking of those people who think the Trinity is God, Jesus, and The Holy Scriptures)....

What we need is to Godize the Bible, to recapture its main storyline in our hearts and then live our lives all caught up in His story. We need to know God.

Turns out when we get serious about opening our hearts to God a funny thing happens. We love the Bible. We can’t read it enough, can’t remember it enough, and the character of Eternity Himself seems to leap off every page.

More on what knowing God ought to look like in the next post…