The instruction of the LORD is perfect, renewing one’s life; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making the inexperienced wise. —Psalm 19:7
It’s true that not all parts of the Bible are equally easy to digest. This week I have been reading in 1 Chronicles and Ezekiel. Unlike the succulent passages we might discover in 1 Peter or the gospel of John, there are some passages in those books that seem particularly tedious and even unnecessary. Even the great Puritan pastor John Bunyan admitted, “I have sometimes seen more in a line of the Bible than I could well tell how to stand under and yet at another time the whole Bible hath been to me as dry as a stick.”1
Yes, we need the Psalms and the Epistles. But we also need the Books of the Law, the Historical Books, the Prophets, and the Gospels. We need the whole of God’s Word.
It was for this reason that Paul reminded Timothy that “all Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable” (2 Tim. 3:16). That means we need a diet that includes all of God’s Word.
1 John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Broadstreet Publishing, 2007), 91.
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A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God through a Daily Devotional Life ©2000 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Scripture taken from The CSB
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Read a portion of God’s Word that you don’t often visit and ask Him to reveal Himself to you through it.