Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 1:2-4
Everything in the Word of God is true and completely trustworthy and dependable. There is a wealth of history, philosophy, and information about the natural world in the Bible, and it is accurate in every detail. But the Bible is not given to us primarily to be a source of information. The Bible is given to us primarily to be a source of transformation. When we do what it says, we will become more like Jesus. “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed” (James 1:25). The more we know from the Bible the better we are able to apply God’s truths to the challenges and questions we face. The more consistently we do that, the more our lives will fall in line with God’s plan.
Charles Spurgeon said, “This weapon is good at all points, good for defense and for attack, to guard our whole person or to strike through the joints and marrow of the foe. Like the seraph’s sword at Eden’s gate, it turns every way. You cannot be in a condition that the Word of God has not provided. The Word has as many faces and eyes as providence itself. You will find it unfailing in all periods of your life, in all circumstances, in all companies, in all trials, and under all difficulties. Were it fallible, it would be useless in emergencies, but its unerring truth renders it precious beyond all price to the soldiers of the cross.”
