The Scriptures are Profitable
The scriptures are profitable for the purpose of reproving and correcting us. But how many people do you know who are even willing to be corrected when they are in error, to be reproved for the wrong things they do? People simply do not like to be reproved and corrected.
People love praise, they like flattery, but reproof and correction folk really hate. Now do you see why it is difficult for people to understand the Bible and agree on just what it says? The Bible is God?s spiritual mirror. It shows up every flaw in our thinking and reveals every spot of our character. It pictures us as we really are, as God sees us and not as we like to think we are or as we would have other people see us. "For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword. It cuts both ways and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart" (Heb 4:12).
When little children do things that are wrong, that have been forbidden, do they usually admit it freely and frankly? We are all only little children grown up. When our Heavenly Father speaks to us through His Son and reproves, rebukes or corrects us we usually do not like to admit our errors, our faults, our wrong ways. Now, the word of God has become twisted, wrested, perverted with almost every false and counterfeit meaning imaginable being read into it. Instead of teaching and expounding the plain simple intended meaning, instead of acknowledging the truth, men seek to justify their own ways by perverting the sacred and holy word of God. In this way, Paul was inspired to write (2 Tim 4:1-4) that the time would come when men would not endure sound doctrine. People have turned away their ears from the truth and have turned to fables palmed off as the truth of God?s word. They tremble at the thought of what people say, instead of what the word of God says.
Finally, in John 13:34-35 Christ?s declaration for love did not mean give and take, eating and doing things together. He really meant love from the bottom of our heart, a love that can lay down life for one another (John 15:13).The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good.
Bro Isaac Guzete (Craigmore, Zimbabwe)
