A new school has been built at the end of the street where I walk. I’ve been watching the building process for over a year; now it is done. Since the construction is completed and the landscaping finished, I expect to see the furniture, equipment and supply trucks starting to roll in. The school is scheduled to open in August. Soon the kitchen will be stocked, the library books on the shelf, desks and chairs in each room. Teachers will be setting up their classrooms.
Each day as I walk by I think about how lovely that building is. A lot of planning went into it, a lot of hard work also. It is primed and ready to be opened and used. 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 up there on the hill empty of learners.
Each day as I walk 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.
