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If you’ve ever wondered what the purpose of the
Bible truly was, or why God had chosen to make two Testaments instead of one,
when its message points to only one truth, or what all of it means to you, or
to any question or doubt in your mind, it is clear sign that God has perked
your soul because He wants to reach you and show His love to you. One of the
most interesting dilemmas about the Word of God has been the meaning of the
two testaments. Why had God chosen to reveal His will through the passage of
one testament’s history to a new one, if the Word of God itself testifies to
one truth and one Messiah? The mysteries of God are truly boundless. Yet, the
mysteries of God are within us, to be attained in spirit and in truth to any
willing to believe and search with a sincere heart. The truth of God’s
statement was in fact made both in word and action by a living God, who
fashioned man to sense in himself, the spirit of the living God. But,
fortunately God gave to all of mankind more that just a sense within him, but
words to live by, a record of the relationship between man and God, a history
by which to learn and understand life, the Bible. From our eyes and ears, to
our hearts and minds, God reveals His purpose and love for who we are, right
down to the very core of our souls.
The Old and New Testament are profound revelations of God’s voice to man. It
stands as the undertone of God’s desire for man to be born out of his flesh
and into his spirit, out of the boundaries of man limitations in the law and
into the freedom of the spirit that is the law of love. God put to reality,
spiritual things into material form and expression, and likewise, paralleled
the history of man’s fall and redemption within the spiritual context of God’s
message for man. God’s design of the Bible mirrors God’s design of the life of
man. And that design goes beyond the beginning of time. Before the mind or
body was ever born, God knew each soul even before the beginning of time. The
soul created in the image of God lived outside of time, before our
consciousness and beyond our physical life. The purpose of our physical life
was the birth of our soul, to experience life and choose for ourselves whether
to accept or reject God’s provision of love and eternal life.
So the history of creation is given to us. But for what purpose? God as a
loving being chose to create mankind for the sake of sharing love with him.
But to truly do so, He had to give him the ultimate knowledge of good and
evil, and the power and desire to choose freely. With that knowledge came the
birthright to be spirits of God, to understand his own creation and ultimately
the creator behind it. But in our choosing, God allowed as our spiritual
inheritance, the reality of living in the full context of spiritual powers and
principalities, the forces behind good and evil. This is where the beginning
of man started, in his search for his purpose in life and his desire to
understand the world around him.
Like all things created by God, the Bible, with its story of man’s fall and
redemption in the two parts of the Old and New Testament, exists to tell the
perfect design and intention of God’s good will for man. Because the knowledge
of true forgiveness and love of God can only be understood amidst the worst of
man’s failures and evils, God allowed all things on earth to happen, so that
the soul of man which lives forever would not suffer an eternal suffering, but
live and triumph in victory with his eternal creator.
Simply, the Bible is a beautiful metaphor and love story for man. The Bible
and God’s word in it, is like food for the spirit and nourishment for the
soul. Just like our bodies need all of the necessary vitamins and minerals,
and sustenance to grow and thrive, our spirits need spiritual vitamins and
minerals, and sustenance too. And like the body, when the spirit grows feeble
& weak and lies starving for nourishment, we are thrust into a hunger pang in
our soul that yearns for spiritual food.
The Bible can be pictured like a great dining hall of spiritual food of God’s
everlasting truth, blessing, and love, life and strength giving hope. So
nourishing, it heals the sick and dying. When a hungry, poor, starving man
finds himself alone in a king’s banquet hall overflowing with tables of food
and wine, he does not casually go and sit by a plate of food to calmly finish
its contents. No, he runs to the food and consumes everything in sight.
Letting free his inhibitions and fears, he would instinctively choose to eat
and thus choose a better life. Likewise, the Bible is our King’s banquet hall
of spiritual food and wine. We should run to it when the hunger pangs strike
in our spirit and we feel lost and poor inside. We should run with our soul
senses wide open, ready to consume everything thing in sight. The soul within
us that dreams, hopes, works and loves needs nourishment from God’s holy Word
to truly be content.
But sadly, the things of the material world have spoiled our spiritual
appetites. But the grace of God abounds even beyond the mess of this
world that it cannot touch the souls of his creation, his children. He
can see through the thick cloud of fear, pain, and confusion in our busy
lives. God can overcome any doubt and any disbelief, heal any aspect of
our broken lives, inside and out, despite the depth and breadth of those
of those doubts and disbeliefs, no matter how strong its hold on us.
This material life and physical form will all, one day, be left behind
us, and with it, all those messy and sad worldly worries. So, when
faith, hope, and love are lost, the Word of God, can sustain you and
give you eternal life, eternal hope, and eternal love. The purpose of
God’s will and our lives lie within the pages of our Bible. And to
consume its life giving truth and reap the blessings of God’s bounty, we
must sincerely accept every Word of God.
Written by BWC Staff Feb. 2004
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