Josh1Eight

"a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son,1 with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”  Have you ever wanted God to speak to you? Like where you could actually hear Him as of He was standing in the same room?  If so, what what would He have to say? Would He be mad? Would he ask you to become a missionary to Siberia? I'm pretty sure everyone at some point has wondered what it would be like to literally hear God's voice. Not that voice in your head that speaks to your heart sometimes. I mean the thundering, audible voice from the clouds speaking to your ears kind of hearing.  In Scripture there are only a handful of times that God ever broke His silence to the human ear, however this was definitely one of them. Jesus and three of his disciples hike up the mountain. And then out of nowhere, Jesus temporarily transforms into His spiritual secret identify that is beaming with light.  Not knowing what to do or say, Peter starts talki...

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16, 17 ESV) Paul's statement here about the nature and origin of Scripture, aka the Bible, might be one of the most profound spiritual truths ever penned.  He paints a picture of the Holy Spirit, the very breath of God Almighty, exhaling into human history in written form decades after the Word became flesh and lived lived among us (John 1:14).  As we begin to read Scripture I imagine God the Spirit filling collapsed lungs with spiritual strength, resuscitating me to life . Not that we were dead necessarily but sometimes we feel and even act spiritually unconscious for a period of time and desperately in need of some holy CPR. His Word gives us what we could never give ourselves - it's truth when I deceive myself, correction when I'm dead wrong, teaching...