Hi Brian!

This week I want to share again the devotional by Charles Spurgeon from my PC Study Bible!

"Search the Scriptures." — John 5:39

The Greek word here rendered search signifies a strict, close, diligent, curious search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are in earnest after game. We must not rest content with having given a superficial reading to a chapter or two, but with the candle of the Spirit we must deliberately seek out the hidden meaning of the word.

Holy Scripture requires searching—much of it can only be learned by careful study. There is milk for babes, but also meat for strong men. The rabbis wisely say that a mountain of matter hangs upon every word, yea, upon every title of Scripture. Tertullian exclaims, "I adore the fulness of the Scriptures."

No man who merely skims the book of God can profit thereby; we must dig and mine until we obtain the hid treasure. The door of the word only opens to the key of diligence. The Scriptures claim searching. They are the writings of God, bearing the divine stamp and imprimatur— who shall dare to treat them with levity? He who despises them despises the God who wrote them. God forbid that any of us should leave our Bibles to become swift witnesses against us in the great day of account.

The word of God will repay searching. God does not bid us sift a mountain of chaff with here and there a grain of wheat in it, but the Bible is winnowed corn—we have but to open the granary door and find it. Scripture grows upon the student. It is full of surprises. Under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, to the searching eye it glows with splendour of revelation, like a vast temple paved with wrought gold, and roofed with rubies, emeralds, and all manner of gems. No merchandise like the merchandise of Scripture truth.

Lastly, the Scriptures reveal Jesus: "They are they which testify of Me." No more powerful motive can be urged upon Bible readers than this: he who finds Jesus finds life, heaven, all things. Happy he who, searching his Bible, discovers his Saviour.

Before I received JESUS as Lord and Saviour I had never read the Bible. The day that I did fnally pray, and felt as though nothing happened, I found myself crying because I was home with two toddlers, living in the country with no vehicle and felt that I needed someone to hear my prayer so they could tell me that I really was saved. As I was sitting there on the floor in tears, I randomly opened my Bible to this: 

1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

From that time on I began to study the Bible so that I could KNOW things I needed to know! So began my never ending quest to KNOW MORE! When I found out how to search for the original words and what they REALLY said, I discovered so many times in the Word where our understanding was not what it should be. This has become one of the greatest joys of my Bible study! After reading the devotional above, I am more excited than ever before to dig deeper! There is ALWAYS MORE than what we presently know, so I will be sharing more of what I find! Here is Brandon Lake with "Wild For Me", which is what HE is for each of us! 

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!