To leave our subdivision I often drive past the local elementary school. For the past few months during summer break the building has stood empty. I know that inside those walls there are classrooms and libraries and a cafeteria just waiting for that first busload of students when the new school year starts.
Each time I passed the building this summer I thought about how lovely the school building and grounds are. However, until that first busload of students arrives eager to explore and learn, the building is useless. It may look good, but it DOES no good sitting there empty of learners.
Each time I drive by I think about how our Bible is like that building, it DOES no good sitting unopened on a shelf or coffee table. All the wonderful treasures inside only come when we open it and eagerly explore and learn from it.
2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. [NIV]
Thank you, Father, for giving us Your Word to teach, rebuke, correct and train us. May we search its depths and discover its riches every day. Amen.
