God breathed

So one of my friends is going through a tough time in her life right now and the first thing I thought is, I got to send her some Bible verses. So I started flipping through the Bible pulling out verses and man is the Bible good. I mean, obviously the Bible is good and obviously the Bible "is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness" but man it's just amazing. I mean, as I was pulling out verses it was just so awesome to see how the Word is "living and active" even after 1000's of years. I just had to write a quick blog about this because it just has me all fired up and I figure the best thing to do when you are fired up about something is to get it down on paper.

You can pretty much turn to the Bible for any type of wisdom, encouragement, instruction, anything that you may need in this life. Unfortunately, most of us try to "rely on our own understanding" and do not "acknowledge Him" and go to His Word as often as we should. We like to rely on our own strength as if we are Superman or Superwoman (depending on your gender). We like to think that we can go it alone and only really turn to God when we really need Him, like if something major is going on in our life. But man God wants us to turn to Him and rely on Him all of the days of our lives. The Bible is so rich and so powerful that if we would rely on His Word and His strength as opposed to our futile attempts to be God, we would be so much better off. This is not to say that we won't go through trials and bad things in our lives, but it does mean that God will be there for us during those times so that we can "count it all joy" knowing that ultimately we will be made "perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."

So I guess to sum it all up in 3 words...read the Bible