"Your Word" Hillsong Worship For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. (Hebrews 4:12) Week 6: Why and How do I read the Bible? The Word. God Breathed, God inspired. The best selling book of all times. Illegal in some countries, at the centre in others. How could one book have so much controversy surrounding it? This book that beacons your soul to lay open before it. For its timeless wisdom to examine, compare, teach and convict. It is only through the word of God that we come to know who God is. His very nature graces the pages of this long and beautifully written novel. It is His story, and He invites us to be part of it.  “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!  Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life..." (John 5:39-40) And what about you? Do you treat this book as the ones do that could be killed for its possession? Do you have a time when you allow it to steal you away, and ponder over the depth and breadth of its wisdom? Do you fight the world and its culture to apply what you have learned? Do you learn from the people that have gone before you? Do you set your goals and your purpose around its message;  around its author? Do you hear him speaking to you through its pages, calling you  to come away, for a time to rest and be in Him?  All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realise what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. (2 Timothy 3:16)