Doing It By the Book

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. (Joshua 1:8)

While we can cut corners, bend the rules and use inferior materials for some projects, God expects us to do His work by the book.

We find out about who God is and how He wants us to live by reading the Bible. The Bible gives examples of what to do and what not to do through the patriarchs starting with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Throughout the dispensations, God continued to give examples through kings such as David, Solomon, Josiah, and Zedekiah. We learn life applications from the major prophets such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. We learn how obedience is better than sacrifice through the minor prophets such as Jonah, Joel, Amos, Nahum and Habakkuk.

The gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John give us a profile of the coming Messiah while the book of Acts tells us about the birth of the church and takes us on Paul's three missionary journey. After Paul planted churches and mentored young pastors, he lets us in on the instructions through his 13 epistles and letters. Then the 8 general epistles are recorded with information addressed to no particular person but to everyone. And if we are to ever live by the book, we should read the book of Revelation to know exactly what must take place before the consummation of the world.

Since we can never know on our own how God wants it done, we must do it by the book...the Bible, that is!
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Quiz 258
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Rev. Margaret Minnicks

Director, The Way of Life
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