The great blessing of having the Bible, the Word of God, so accessible to us is that we can come back to it again and again to re-orient ourselves in the midst of life. To be ‘oriented’ is to be faced east, the way that our churches face, even if they face north like ours. It is to be set in the direction of Jesus Christ, our Sun of Righteousness who rises with healing in his wings. In his life, death, and resurrection He is primarily our gift, but also our example, for He lived a perfect human life. So as we read and hear the scriptures preach, we are both “transformed by the renewing of our minds” by the Holy Spirit, an act of God upon us, and we are shown how to live in response to this. This is nothing less than keeping Christ’s word.
