| As we study the Bible, which “word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path,” let us be sure that we are “rightly dividing the word of truth.” While all God’s Word is for us “and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”—while it is all for us, it is not all about us. For example, God’s word to Adam was that “of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Surely this Scripture, like all other Scripture, “is profitable” to us, as we observe the effects of Adam’s disobedience to it, yet it is not spoken directly to us, for we are not in the Garden of Eden in the beginning of human history, as Adam was. So let us be “rightly dividing the word of truth,” plowing a straight furrow, cutting a clean line. Let us apply to Israel what God has said to them, and let us apply to the church what God has said to us, in wholehearted obedience. Then we can say with the psalmist, “How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” |
