In this series, we are going to talk about a word from the Lord. We all need a word from the Lord, don’t we? As a matter of fact, a secondary purpose behind all that we are doing in these series is to encourage one another to be in the Word every day. So, if you get up every morning and read this series, that is not enough to really walk with Christ like you should. It’s a starter, like a vitamin pill, or a glass of orange juice in the morning for breakfast. It will get you rolling and maybe encourage you to get further into the Word. It’s a Word from the Lord as we look at scriptures together that will help you to walk with Him. We hope it has been doing that.
Another idea behind these series is that you might develop a habit of meeting with the Lord daily. We need that Word from the Lord. That Word is found in the scriptures alone. God does not speak to us independent of the scriptures. The Holy Spirit has inspired the Word of God and has given us this scripture and the Word that God wants us to have and to know. As we read the Bible, Old or New Testament, whatever genre we are looking at, we are finding God’s Word to us. It is our great privilege to be able to do that. I was speaking to a class recently here at church and reminding one another how wonderful it is that we have a Bible in our hands. We are one of the few people in all of history that can go into our homes and churches and pick up our own personal Bible to read it, study it, and meditate over it. In times past, there was maybe a scroll here or there. Maybe a copy of the word of God that was chained to the pulpit at churches, but people didn’t have their own copies to go home to. If they had anything it was something they had written down themselves, or copied from church, or maybe a fragment here or there. The privilege of having the entire 66 books of scripture as the Word of God to speak to us is a privilege that should never be shunned and should always be enjoyed . . .
