adminStanely Mushava Cool Writer
Music is a household phenomenon, films beam from screen to screen in viral strokes; social networks have fermented far and wide to points of no return and fashion trends in with overnight craze. The generation gap has never been wider. Youth culture is in dynamic mode, constantly changing to keep pace with the times.
While the digital age has occasioned laudable discoveries and opportunities, it has written off traditional ways and seen our generation on the downgrade.
Family values are going obsolete and youths are retreating from the commitments of faith to attend to the new pressures of modernity.
Bible literacy has taken a slump and this week Cool Lifestyle devotes this space to provoking Bible consciousness among the youths.
What is the Bible?
The Bible is the certified counsel of God, authored by the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of inspired mediums. It has the irrefutable seal of divine authenticity and is worthy the supreme devotion of all our perceptive faculties.
In the Bible, we have the all-sufficient revelation of God to mankind, to which every minute aspect of our lives and worship must conform.
The mildest inclination to add or subtract from the Bible does not emanate from God, but must always be resisted as a counterfeit experience devised and retailed by Satan under the guise of religion.
As the Bible is the Creator’s manual for all humanity to observe in our daily stewardship of life and creation, there is no one inhabiting the universe who can claim exemption from the righteous requirements Bible.
“No blush is to mantle our cheek when we are called Christians; we are never to speak with bated breath in any company concerning the things of God,” notes Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the man who has been universally eulogised as the Prince of the Preachers.
“That which a man carries in his hand he may forget and lose, that which he wears upon his person may be torn from him, but that which is bound about his heart will remain there as long as life remains.
“We are to love the Word of God with all our heart and mind, and soul, and strength; with the full force of our nature we are to embrace it; all our warmest affections are to be bound up with it,” writes Spurgeon.
Authorship of the Bible
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16,17). God is the author of the Bible; whereas men were only secretaries.
The Bible is not just a record of an ancient Semitic civilisation; it is the Living and Eternal Word of God and its holy dictates are binding on every individual worldwide.
“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation.
“For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21, 22).
Consecrated men were mere outlets whereas God is the source of every word in the Bible.
We must, therefore, approach the Bible not as any other literature, but the mandatory Decree of the Original Majesty which it is not optional but binding on everyone to observe.
Next week, we will explore the other aspects of the Bible in the hope that more youths will reawaken the walk of faith.
Meanwhile, get yourself a Bible today and begin to study and live it! You have nothing to lose and your destiny to secure by jumping into your Bible right from this message and living each day on a healthy dose of God’s Word.
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