From Jacob's call to experience and wrestle with God...to his son Joseph's call to go deeper and deeper daily in a personal knowledge of God that would sustain him anywhere, we see Scripture's unified lesson that:
As we grow in faith and continue to re-read Joseph's story, it becomes much more than this one story featuring a colorful coat.
Scripture presents us with very special content designed to deeply engage our hearts. Its unified thread of meaning becomes more and more visible as we embrace the approach that (i) looks for unity among its messages, and (ii) responds to its self-revealing Divine authority, which calls us - as God, Christ, and Savior - in a personal journey of faith.
The call is specifically tailored to us and its impact is searching, compelling, and continuing.
Our need to answer is this soul-changing part of the right approach to Bible study and interpretation. At some point, Bible study requires a response. As its content becomes clearer and clearer, we must respond definitively to its basic presuppositions:
(1) THE REALITY OF THE SELF-REVEALING DIVINITY - GOD,
(2) THE MORAL CALL TO BELIEF,
(3) THE CRISIS OF SIN, and
(4) A CALL TO PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION.
God calls each of us.
As we grow in faith and continue to re-read Joseph's story, it becomes much more than this one story featuring a colorful coat.
It becomes for me a personal call to discipleship in its most bare essence. It becomes a personal call to see who God is with my own eyes of faith, to experience it, to see its consistency, and to see in it Jesus' walk, and every Christian's walk.
Our study, rightly done, will continue to drive us further into understanding how God works, His will - and our alignment to it. Scripture presents us with very special content designed to deeply engage our hearts. Its unified thread of meaning becomes more and more visible as we embrace the approach that (i) looks for unity among its messages, and (ii) responds to its self-revealing Divine authority, which calls us - as God, Christ, and Savior - in a personal journey of faith.
The call is specifically tailored to us and its impact is searching, compelling, and continuing.
Will we answer? When will we answer? And how?
Our need to answer is this soul-changing part of the right approach to Bible study and interpretation. At some point, Bible study requires a response. As its content becomes clearer and clearer, we must respond definitively to its basic presuppositions:
(1) THE REALITY OF THE SELF-REVEALING DIVINITY - GOD,
(2) THE MORAL CALL TO BELIEF,
(3) THE CRISIS OF SIN, and
(4) A CALL TO PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION.
*May God's Spirit Be With You As You Study – And Experience His Guiding You Into His Will*
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