The Why and
How of Bible Searches

Searching the word of God is a noble and ennobling occupation. According to Acts 17:13, what made the people of Berea "more noble" is that they didn't take for granted what the apostles taught. Their reception of the word of God was not cavalier or superficial. They were not interested simply in accepting what someone else had to say without checking it out for themselves. If Jesus Christ's death for our sins and resurrection for our justification were indeed foretold in the Scriptures, they would exercise their faculties and search daily until they found the evidence and were fully assured of its veracity.

How often we take what others say at face value and are satisfied with their witness without checking it out for ourselves! I'm not suggesting that we should not be receptive to what others share with us from the word or from their experience of Christ; rather, I mean that if we take the time to pray and to search God's word for ourselves, our own personal understanding and assurance of faith will grow and be deeply rooted. We are blessed if our knowledge of Christ and His word is not in the realm of grand thoughts and warm feelings, but in the realm of settled revelation and real experience. This is the why of Bible searches: that we may personally know the One of whom the Scriptures testify.

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