We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own
personal needs in mind, and to look for answers to our own private
questions. That is good, as far as it
goes... But better still is the advice
to study the Bible objectively, ... without regard, first of all, to our own
subjective needs. Let the great passages
fix themselves in our memory. Let them
stay there permanently, like bright beacons, launching their powerful shafts of
light upon life's problems -- our own and everyone's -- as they illumine, now
one, now another dark area of human life.
Following such a method, we discover that the Bible does "speak to
our condition" and meet our needs, not just occasionally or when some
emergency arises, but continually.
-- Frederick C. Grant
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