THE BIBLE IS NOT A STORY BOOK!

The Holy Bible is full of great promises God has made to His children. Yeah! That's us!!
The Bible has 66 books and it is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. I happened to hear from a well-known preacher, a wonderful example for how the Bible was written.
A space shuttle, with its crew, is in the space and it is operated as per the instructions given by the crew in the ground station. Now, the operation is performed by the hands of the people in the space shuttle, but what they operate is determined by the people in the ground station. Similarly, the Bible was written by 40 God chosen people as told and guided by the Holy Spirit. The authors of the Bible used their language and style to write (hands used to operate the shuttle in space) but as directed by the Holy Spirit( instructions from the ground station).
Even though the Bible was written by different authors in different periods of time, we can find coherence between the books in the Bible. Every book in the Bible is interconnected. This is another proof to display that the main author was the God Almighty and all the 40 authors were led by the same Holy Spirit.

Do you know that the Holy Bible was the first book that was 'printed'? Yes! It was. You could find the geneology of people told in the Bible which other Holy books fail to tell. This gives a proof that the Bible is not a story book that was written through imagination!

The Bible is not 'something' that was printed in black ink on white paper. It's the truth and it's God's word. The words in the Bible are pure without impurity. Absolutely, no human error has crept into the book of God's word.

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. (Psalm 12:6).

Bible is not a book that is supposed to be kept in libraries or in home shelves or inside the locker since it is a Holy book. This book is something that has to be kept in the HEART.

Let not mercy and TRUTH forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. (Proverbs 3:3,4).

This Bible book is filled with prophecies about the future of the world as told by God ordained prophets not by their will but by the Holy Spirit.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. For prophecy never came by the will of man, but Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20, 21).

The Bible teaches us the kind of life that we are supposed to live, making us righteous to live according to God's will and eligible for eternal life.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16,17).

How should we read the Bible?!
We are supposed to read it with faith.
We are supposed to read it with Godly fear. We have to read to obey.
We should read to share!

We are going to be judged in the heavens only by God's word!! Not by sword but by the word of God.

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).

The word of God will cleanse us, sanctify us and qualify us. This 'treasure book' will make us a special treasure in God's sight. Let the Word-God who became flesh be born in your hearts! Amen! GBU!

How sweer are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth. (Psalm 119: 103).
Eating the word of God!!
~Blessed Christian.