Seek To Understand Every Word
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.” Philippians 1:9 (NASB)
“God intends for us to understand His Word rather than to plead ‘mystery’ over vital portions of it. He has given it for our learning. Of God’s Word the psalmist said, ‘it is a lamp into my feet, and a light unto my path’ (Psalm 119:105), and such is intended to be for each of us today.
God calls upon us to seek Him in order that we may know Him, though His ways and His thoughts are as far above ours as ‘the heavens are higher than the earth’ (Isaiah 55:8-9). Surely, as we come to know God better, we will understand His Word and His will more fully. God is our Savior; to know Him is eternal life (John 17:3). Knowing God must include a deepening understanding of all He has revealed to us in His Word.
We are to live, as Christ said (quoting His own declaration as the I AM to Israel through Moses in Deuteronomy 8:3), not ‘by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God’ (Matthew 4:4). Solomon said, ‘Every word of God is pure’ (Proverbs 30:5; emphases added). Then we must carefully consider and seek to understand every word.”
Dave Hunt, What Love Is This, p. 29