Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
[1 Peter 1:3 NIV]
Dan Meyer talks about the reality of many (including himself) taking the Bible for granted. If God has given us everything that we need for life, the Bible is very valuable.
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DAN MEYERS: I’ll be really honest in saying that, um, I know that deep inside the Bible should mean so much more to me that it does. And, uh, I think that’s probably a reality for a lot of us that we take it for granted.
Um, that it is the word of God and, um, God has given us everything we need for life and Godliness through our knowledge of him. It says that in second Peter, the first chapter.
And, uh, and I think about that. If he’s given us everything that we need for life and Godliness through our knowledge of him and that knowledge has come specifically to us through his word and through the coming of Christ who is the word of God made flesh, um, and the gospels that record the life of Christ in word for us to take.
Um, if God has given us everything we need for life and Godliness through our knowledge of him then it is a very valuable book to me. But in my daily struggle, as all of our daily struggles are of busyness and selfishness and concern with the stuff of earth, um, I have to remind myself of that.
So I thank you for asking me the question because it’s—it brings up that part of me that says Dan you don’t value the word of God like you should and you get very complacent at times with just making it a—almost a un-appeasement kind of material, you know something that we—we do what we should do as Christians is read the word and not study it.
And I enjoy studying the word. I enjoy getting with some of my brothers in this life and we chomp through those things and challenge one another because it does change us. The word of God does change us.
Please note that the views expressed in this story are not necessarily the views of the American Bible Society. Story posted on March 30th, 2008 and filed under Dan Meyers, Bible, Video Stories, Verses.
