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Clip Art Image: The Holy Bible (Tinted Yellow Back)

Whoever knows Christ knows that the Bible is God's message to all people.  It is especially a message and a faithful guide to God's spiritual children.  The people who do not know God cannot understand why we believe that it is the very Word of God.  Even many "religious" people do not understand.  This is because the Holy Spirit of God is not living inside them.

Paul explains some of this in his first letter to the Christian believers in the ancient city of Corinth (the New Testament book of 1 Corinthians).  He writes that the person who is flesh and blood alone (not spiritually alive in Christ) cannot understand or accept the things of God.  They spiritually void of the eyes and ears required to see and grasp what God is doing.  They are relying completely on the ideas and understanding of mortal flesh.

This does not mean that true Christians should become arrogant.  We cannot boast in our understanding of the things of God.  Our behavior as a group — and as individuals — shows that we often make silly choices and do foolish things.  We are still growing in God's wisdom by His grace.  Our wisdom comes from the Spirit of God, and only as we yield to Him.

We can brag about how good and kind and powerful God is, and about our Savior Jesus Christ.  But we are still weak in many ways.  And we are also prone to walk in the flesh, just as unbelievers do. 

If we do not devote ourselves to the Lord Jesus, and to spending time in His Presence, we can become so spiritually cold that we will fall back into our old ways of thinking and acting.

God has been kind enough to give us His very Word.  We need that message and the power it imparts to our minds and hearts.  We must partake of what the Lord has provided if we want to remain strong in Him.  His Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth, but the Lord will not force us to partake and grow.  That is a choice we must must make each day.