Our Verse: Isa 28:10 God tells us everything over and over—one line at a time, one line at a time, a little here, and a little there.

Text:
Can we decode God's complex message? There are many deep and sometimes hard to understand connections in Scripture, so how/ can we understand?

We need a decryption key to God's message. This key, the most critical element to understanding the Bible, is God's presence in your life. He is the Key. While invisible to your eyes, God makes Himself present to everyone through what we know as His Holy Spirit. This everywhere presence of God is first described in Genesis 1:2 as the Spirit of God hovered over the waters of earth.”

As we grasp the key- recognizing His presence, we begin to understand His message.

As you read, God decrypts! At first, you will see a simple picture of Him, a little like kindergarten, the basics of faith. As you grow in understanding and mature as a Christian, you will see His design and understand more, like the verse above, a little here, and a little there. And the result, Your faith, your trust grows.

Reading Scripture helps you to build a mental library of Bible verses. You begin to weave these verses together into a pattern, like a tapestry. From that pattern comes a full picture of God and His ways, and a picture of you.

In an earlier episode we talked about comparing verses. As you read your Bible, you will see these connections.You will find connections within the New Testament and connections between the Old and New Testaments. I am always finding these connections. They validate the essentials of our belief, God's forgiveness, His justice and mercy and His willingness to communicate with us! Finding the connections in Scripture helps us understand who He is, and what He wants from us.