Human beings can go to great lengths seeking opportunities to build character and become better people. While the world offers self-help books, seminars, etc. for growing in this way, God offers the greatest help.
When the apostle Paul spoke to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20, he told them “I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified” (verse 32).
The Word of God builds faith (Rom. 10:17) and produces good fruit when it is sown in sincere hearts (Matt. 13:23). It is the book that can transform us from who we are into who God says we should be. It is the spiritual nutrition by which we can grow as God commands (1 Pet. 2:2).
If we want to improve our lives and the lives of others, let us seek the Lord’s solution. The Bible offers greater guidance than all other books ever written. Whether reading the Bible directly or hearing the truth of the Bible taught, God’s truth is the wisdom we should seek and respect as being far above those “words of wisdom” that originate in the minds of men (Isa. 55:9).
May we appreciate God’s Word, which can and does build sincere hearers up into the kind of people we should be.
– Michael Hickox