The Bible and Errors 3

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. (Psalm 119:165)

One interesting thing with God is the way He relates with man. He leaves no options outside His revelation.

We have looked at the Bible as a road map to Christ who also is the only way to the Father and heaven. No other road map exists to get us there.

Now, let me respond to those who are wondering about the road map before the Bible was written, let alone completed.

The Bible consists of REVELATION. God always revealed Himself to those who sought Him. And that revelation was His word. The compilations of all those words make up the Bible.

Look at Abraham. Of course he did not have a Bible. In fact there was no written instruction from God before Moses was ordered to write the Pentateuch (or was there?).

Get from your ‘security’ and follow Me to a land that I will show you. He was ordered

This makes clear God’s methods to His seekers. First is that He takes us from somewhere. Second is that we are required to follow His constant guidance. His revelation is such that it increases our dependence on His continued revelation as opposed to giving us a certificate of competence.

I started this by stating that there is no other method to get through to God except through His word. Our passion, anointing, experience and all other excellence is no guarantee of our being on the road unless we are following the Bible.

An example will suffice here.

Solomon had a father who valued God’s word. As the Bible records, except for two incidences, he never did anything before getting to know what God wanted.

Solomon had observed this and so at the inception of his reign he starts right.

The God appears to him and he is given an open cheque to ask what he would. Again, we all know he asked for wisdom so that he continues leading God’s people God’s way.

God likes that and gives him more that he had asked for.

But I want us to look at that wisdom. He was given wisdom and knowledge. And probably that is where he went wrong. He may have thought that he was equipped to handle everything using that wisdom and knowledge that he ignored the commandment for a king to have a copy of the scriptures to be reading every day of his life.

Of course we know he got so lost spiritually as his wisdom could not handle the spiritual challenges his excellence in political and commercial pursuits brought. He therefore lost the plot at the end.

Now if the wisest man failed because he neglected scriptural intake, what makes you think that you can succeed otherwise?

I have said that the road is narrow, apparently stringent. But that is as far as the illustration goes. Do not think of it as a road that is fenced with thorns and briars on the sides to limit our straying.

Look at it like this. There is a very narrow road in a field without visible markings. The only guide to the person is infrared glasses one wears as it is marked with material visible only in that spectrum.

The Bible is like those glasses in the spiritual realm. You remove them for the shortest time and you are lost, not just get lost.

Or you can compare it to the open sea and air. It is only with navigation aids that you can get to your destination.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?  by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. (Psalm 119: 9 – 11)

We are therefore only able to get to the destination if we constantly keep using those tracks that have been marked for our direction.

It also explains why it appears foolhardy for anyone not reading that roadmap to understand us.

Imagine someone walking so carefully so that he does not stray or lose his way in an open field without restrictions! Imagine keeping to a path that does not exist and even talking about a map in an unmarked field giving freedom to everybody else except your ‘imagination’?

Yet that is what the Bible is to us.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)

Only that it is a choice we must make to use that road map or get lost.

Or do not you know that it is impossible to walk straight without a focal point to guide us? Sherlock Holmes wrote something I experienced one time I got lost in a desert as I have written elsewhere. All things being equal, a person will always walk in circles as his strong leg will be taking longer strides than the weak one.

Have you ever wondered why when a band is marching there is one person who never looks right when the order for the ‘eyes right’ salute is made? Haven’t you seen all those markers in those marching fields? It is impossible to walk straight without guidance.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6)

You see, when Adam chose his will against God’s word, he opened us up to wandering without direction as the only direction worth following is the one God has decreed. Even our wisdom is vain outside the bounds of that revelation as we see with Solomon.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 16:25)

That is the reason we must prize God’s word as we will then be walking safely. Incidentally, not the safety of the world that sees safe as shielded from consequences of sin.

Like Solomon many ministers suffer shipwreck when they use their experience to minister and preach instead of the word of God.

Walking according to the word places me within the bounds of God’s protection. I am not looking to be free from consequences of my actions as my actions are shielded from the folly lost sheep are always stumbling through.

There really is one good choice and that is valuing God’s word as to be constantly partaking of it so as to be able to walk according to its guidance.

Otherwise like Solomon (if you are the cream) you will be open to folly of a gigantic nature.

What will your choice be?