The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in 1 Corinthians 2:13,
"This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words."
When I pick up my Bible to read it, what confidence do I have in what I read of it? Is what I read merely the thoughts of some men who lived millenia ago? What if they were wrong in what they had to say? How do I know what they did say is trustworthy and true? When I read in the Scriptures that all who die in their sin will spend eternity in a fiery lake of burning sulfur, is that really the case? When I read that all I need do is trust in Jesus Christ for my eternal salvation and that I will be a co-heir with Jesus Christ, how can I know it is true?
Here in this passage, Paul points to the source of what he had to say. What Paul says, what all of the writers of Scripture had to say was not of human origin. Paul says what they spoke were "words taught by the Spirit". Peter speaks to this issue as well. He placed Paul's writings on the same bookshelf as the rest of the Scriptures when he said, "Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."
Peter acknowledged that Paul wrote what he did "with wisdom that God have him." Elsewhere Peter spoke of all the writers of Scripture when he said, "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21.
The Scriptures are what God has to tell us. They were produced by men, not of their own initiative or interpretation, but as they were "carried along by the Holy Spirit." When I pick up my Bible to read, I have total and complete confidence in what it has to say. It is God's very communication to us. Everything contained within its pages is trustworthy and true. How I thank my God he has chosen to speak to us!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!
Trevor Fisk
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