Have you ever seen the phrase in Scripture “And God said” and wondered how the Lord spoke to that person? How did they know it was God? Have you ever wondered why God doesn’t seem to speak to you or others that way today?

God still speaks to his children, but we have his voice in a way that those in biblical times did not. Most of us have several Bibles on our shelves, not to mention access to God’s word through our technology. In the first century, only the priests and rabbis had access to the Old Testament scrolls. In the New Testament days and beyond, only some knew how to read. The letters and Gospels were usually read aloud to groups in the churches. For centuries, the Bible was painstakingly handwritten by priests who preserved the integrity of each word. It wasn’t until the late 1800s that people were given the chance to own a Bible, and it was the 1900s before owning a Bible became commonplace. 

We refer to the Bible as “God’s word.” But we could also refer to the Bible as God’s voice to his people today. We shouldn’t just read the words; we should learn to hear God speak his word, from the pages, especially those phrases that begin with “And God said.” 

Jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by Satan when he said, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Jesus used Scripture to answer Satan’s temptations and taught his disciples to do the same.

There are many remarkable statistics about the accuracy and history of our biblical text. Suffice it to say that the Bible is known to be a sacred and miraculous volume of historical and proven truth.

The Bible is God speaking his wisdom to us from its pages. Reading the Bible is time spent listening to the word and will of God. The Bible is the unchanging wisdom of our unchanging God. When you read Scripture, you can hear the words “And God said” from each page. The Bible is everything everyone needs to know in order to know and trust God’s authority in their life and live in obedience to his will.

God’s voice is the best source of his wisdom. He can speak into your life at any moment but will most often speak to you from the pages of his comprehensive, historical, miraculous word.

Yielding to God’s wisdom is spiritual strength. We live for God when we study and obey his voice of wisdom, written and preserved for us in the Bible.