08/12/2021
Our Relationship With God
One of the greatest factors that contribute to spiritual ignorance is the fact that believers do not take upon themselves to know the verdict of God many people pride themselves as believers by virtue of belonging to a denomination it's very important to know that you can't have a relationship with God except through his word because God is himself and his word and ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of God.
There are preachers who tell believers that they should look to "the Lord of the book, not the book of the Lord," or something to this effect. But since the words of Scripture were breathed out by God, and those words constitute the only public and explicit revelation from God, it is impossible to look to the Lord without looking to his book. In fact, since the words of Scripture are the very words of God, a person is looking to the Lord only to the extent that he is looking to the words of the Bible. A "person" is identified with his thoughts and his words. Someone who tells me, "I agree with you, as in the person, but I disagree with your thoughts and your words," is not clever or respectful, but insane. To agree with me is to agree with my thoughts and my words. There is no difference.
Our contact with God is through the words of the Bible.
Proverbs 22:17-21 indicates that to trust the Lord is to trust his words: Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you. Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge, teaching you true and reliable words, so that you can give sound answers to him who sent you?
God rules and teaches his church through the Bible; therefore, our attitude toward it reflects our attitude toward God. Anyone who loves God will love his words just as much, and he will not distinguish betwe
