it sounds scary to some but the book is a wheel chair the word is with in it take great faith like walking on water to simply be the word
I lived that way for a long time. I thought I 'knew enough' and the Spirit was sufficient.
One night I had finished the novel I had been reading, and I was searching the house for a new book to start. It was how I liked to go to bed, read until my eyes were tired.
I was getting frustrated because I had already read every book I could find. Then I saw the Bible, and it hit me, if I really believe this is the testimony and word of God Himself, then there is no other book in the history of the universe more important, and why on earth would I even consider picking anything else up?
So i started reading it.
I found out I was a total fool and an absolute idiot. I knew next to
nothing about God and was so full of pride because of the few things I knew and the bare minimum faith I was running on!
Mind you I had read the whole thing before from start to finish. I had grown up in Sunday school and hearing preaching 3 times a week. I was not 'unfamiliar' but I was so so so stupid and knew nothing, nothing, nothing.
I can read a single chapter over and over for the rest of my life and still not find everything in it. The Bible is like no other book. Of course it isn't! It's God's word!
Why would I put it down?
Can I survive without it? Be saved without it? Sure!
But good grief how dumb do I have to be to do so willingly? When it's right here? Like going to war and leaving my sword at home, or starving to death with bread on the table