GOD WANTS OUR ATTENTION!

Genesis 1:1-3: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 Then God SAID, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

John 1:1: In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God.

Hebrews 1:-2: God, who at various times and in various ways SPOKE in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days SPOKEN to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds

Imagine if He never gave us the Bible. The other day, after reading and meditating on what I had read in the first chapter of the Gospel of John, I came to appreciate how passionately I believe the Lord cares for us and wants our attention. In my Bible, before verses 6 and 7 in John 1, when it introduces John the Baptist—the heading is A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.

Our Creator passionately wants to communicate with us, to speak truth to us in this lost world—and we, too, can be voices in the wilderness. I read this week also notes from my lesson from Bible Study Fellowship that communicates what a treasure God’s Word is. Here are some excerpts:

THE BIBLE IS TRULY A TREASURE GIVEN TO US BY GOD:  He gave us His Word, revealing Himself and everything He knows that we need to know. We seldom marvel at this profound privilege. Through God’s Word, we understand something of God’s nature, character, and SOVEREIGN PLAN FOR HUMAN HISTORY. THE BIBLE TEACHES US THAT HISTORY IS MOVING ON THE COURSE GOD HAS DESIGNED TOWARD THE FINAL VICTORY HE WILL ACCOMPLISH. He also gives us His Spirit to live within Believers, illuminating their minds to understand and believe His truth.
Without eyes fixed on the Bible as our standard, we are left to make sense of life based on the wavering whims of our time-bound, earth-oriented understanding. If we do not look to our Creator to define what is true and yield to His authority, we rely only on human assets, which prove limited and wanting.

Since I am now engaged in a Torah Study (beginning with Genesis and planning to go through the next four books of the Bible), I looked into the word “Torah.” The word “Torah” in Hebrew is derived from the root ירה, which as a verb means to guide or to teach. The word therefore means teaching, doctrine, or instruction; the commonly accepted meaning today for Torah is “law” which could give a wrong impression. Eventually the Alexandrian Jews (being more assimilated into the Greek culture) translated the Hebrew