Life On Life, Rooted in God's Word, an excerpt:
God’s Word and our hearts are entirely connected. The Bible is very realistic about human suffering of all kinds. It is also descriptive about what motivates us and drives us in our relationships. Woven through stories, we find God’s promises to redeem our suffering and transform our hearts. We are exposed as victims and victimizers, sufferers and sinners. With a Biblical view of God, self, and suffering, we are empowered by His Spirit to own up to our faults, forgive those who sin against us, and trust God while we move forward with renewed thoughts, beliefs, and desires.
Without this core belief about Scripture as our basis for relationships, we cannot possibly engage in a healthy, fruitful One-Another lifestyles. Apart from God’s Word, we have no basis for helping others, caring for others, or relating to others. All that would be left is our flesh; whenever flesh rules in a relationship, there is struggle.
We live in a day and age where even believers have not trusted in the sufficiency of God’s Word to have the answers they need to life’s dilemmas, struggles, problems, and worries. We are too often prone to refer someone to a secular source of help than we are to point them to what God’s Word has to offer.
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Romans 15:4 (New International Version, ©2011) "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope".
