When All Else Fails, Read the Directions.

How many of you have had to put something together with instructions written in a language you don’t understand? Or after it is put together, there is a piece left over which either doesn’t appear to fit anywhere or should have been used at the beginning of the assembly?

Even better yet, how many of you know someone who thinks they know everything (Aren’t they annoying to those of us who do?) and feel they don’t need the directions to assemble the whatchamacallit? Of course, when the finished piece doesn’t look, or work like it is suppose to, it is always someone else’s fault. It is a little like the man who is lost but is to prideful to stop and ask for directions.

Many people approach Bible study the same way. They don’t know how, or think they know how and really don’t, but won’t admit it and carry on. The result is the same as putting something together wrong or is missing a piece and not working properly.

We have an amazing book in the Bible. It contains God’s plan from eternity past to eternity future. It is information He wanted to share with us. He did not use a secret language, code or otherworldly rhetoric. He used plain, everyday human language to communicate His plan and His wisdom with us. He also understood that we would not always be able to understand to entire breadth of his plan. But He also indicated His will would be carried out. He gave us this information so that we would display our belief and faith in Him that He would carry out His word.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,

And do not return there,

But water the earth,

And make it bring forth and bud,

That it may give seed to the sower

And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isa 55:8-11

God thinks very Highly of His Word. We read in the passage that it will not return void, or empty. He will keep everything He has said or promised. As we look back, we can see that this has been the case all along. Whether confirmed elsewhere in the Bible itself, or confirmed by other historical records, God’s word has rung true time and time again. Don’t you want to know what else He has to say to you?