My Time With Jesus Tuesday

Understanding The Bible

John 1:1, In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Years ago, I was sitting around doing absolutely nothing as a lot of retired people do. I guess in desperation, and looking for something to do, I started to think. My thoughts took me back to when I first started to read the Bible.

I had an Old King James, that never had a page turned. I had no idea where to start, so I picked Jeremiah. Boy did I struggle. You would think it was written in Greek or some other very difficult foreign language. I know the original was but I’m just putting you on on this one.

2 Timothy 3:16-17, All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for Doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction and righteousness. That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

After several frustrating attempts to make sense of it, I gave up. Several months later, my wife was watching an old-time preacher on TV, so I sat down to listen. Three seconds later he really came up with a good one. He said, the Bible is so easy to understand a five-year-old could do it. There was my answer. I was not five years old. Just kidding. 

One day I still moved to conquer the Bible. I was not going to let all the five-year-olds be smarter than me. I was on a quest. I went to a Christian bookstore and told the clerk about my problem. He suggested the Amplified Bible. It really helped, but I still ran into some questions. It was then that I found a study Bible. At last help in understanding. Then I started to buy different versions and compared the expert’s explaining things. There are differences.

Next, I bought Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, English Bible dictionary. Strong’s Concordance came next. I didn’t want to leave a single stone unturned. I finally found an ESV spirit filled study bible it became my #1 Bible. The spirit filled is the Holy Spirit.

About a year ago I bought an MP3 player for about 50 dollars. You can take it anywhere. Use it when you don’t feel like reading. I started listening to it while reading the same scripture. It was kind of like a double shot, I really enjoyed doing it that way.

Romans 15:4, For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Another item you can find for as little as 50 or 60 dollars is a set of CDs that cover the entire Bible. If you have a problem reading, listening would be very good for you. A method I’ve found is a DVD of the Bible that not only shows you the scripture on TV, but it reads it out loud.  You can buy these items from Amazon or a good Christian bookstore. I know any of these will help you to avoid some of the frustration that I originally experienced. God bless you and your family. Praise The Lord!

 Remember Jesus loves you.

 Prayer of Salvation.

 My Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for what you did on the cross for me. Your blood washed away all my sins, by your stripes I was healed, your death and Resurrection brought me salvation. Please forgive my sins and come into my heart as my personal savior. Amen. 

Praise The Lord!