Back to Blog
Enough sharon jaynes5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life” ( John 5:39-40). Jesus warned the religious scholars of his day: “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. God’s Word is not a substitute for the relationship itself. His Word is a means by which He speaks to us in relationship. But it does mean that we don’t stockpile knowledge and miss the intimate relationship Jesus died to make possible. That doesn’t mean that we don’t study the Bible. Knowledge about someone will never satisfy the longing to know someone personally. He knows exactly who God is and what He can do ( James 2:19). We can agree that He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient and still not be in right relationship with Him. ![]() ![]() There is a yearning within our breasts which scholarly teaching simply cannot satisfy. ![]() Week after week people fill churches to hear well-delivered sermons, only to leave with the glory ache still eating away at their hearts. All through history there have been men and women who have had an abundance of knowledge about God but have had little to no manifestation of God’s presence or power in their lives. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |