In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. —John 1:1
The Pharisees of Jesus’ day were renowned for their vast knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures. Yet one day Jesus looked them in the eye and said, “You have not heard his voice at any time, and you haven’t seen his form. You don’t have his word residing in you” (John 5:37–38).
I can just imagine those indignant scholars sputtering, “We’ve spent our whole lives mastering the Bible! If we haven’t heard God’s voice, who has?”
But Jesus wasn’t finished: “You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. But you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life” (vv. 39–40). They were missing the whole point of their study.
If we master the content of the Bible but don’t end up knowing, loving, worshiping, and serving Jesus, we too miss the whole point and set ourselves up to become twenty-first century Pharisees. So, study God’s Word diligently, but don’t miss Jesus!
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The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings ©2012 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Ask God to reveal Himself to you through His Word and to give you faith to keep coming to Him to find life.