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What You Learn When You Read

Psalm 119 is one of my favorites. It uses words like law, statutes, decrees, commands, precepts, and ways to describe the Word of God and its essential importance in our lives. Those words can seem like God is sitting in heaven telling us what to do. But it mustn’t be interpreted that way.

“I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path” Psalm 119:104 NIV

“Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.” Same verse but in the ESV.

-By learning what God says in his Word, we learn more about who He is.

-The more learn about who He is, the more we are drawn to Him.

-The closer we are drawn to Him, we begin to see his ways are better than our own ways.

-When our love grows for Him and His ways, it becomes our desire to be far from anything that is not of Him.

So its not a case of “Read the Bible to make God like you”. As crazy as that sounds, its easy to believe and some people do. We read and study to learn about God’s character, to fall more in love with who he is and to be even more grateful for all the things he has done for us while allowing God to reveal his plans and purposes for our lives as we read his Words. Any other reason may have come from wrong motives.

-SHF