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God's Will Can Be Understood
Many think that the Bible cannot be understood, but we are commanded to understand it.
Paul wrote, “Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ” (Ephesians 3:4). “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17).
Do you think God would give us a book to read, believe, and obey and then make it too difficult to understand?
When God’s word was read in Old Testament times, it was understood. “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8). If Timothy could know the scriptures from a child (2 Timothy 3:15), surely we can come to know and understand them as well!
This does not mean that the Bible reads as a first grade reader. It simply means that with study we can understand what God expects of us without some special anointing of God.
