Consider all of the commentaries written about it...just the commentaries. If you or I wrote a commentary on the Scriptures (which seems an absurd task just for the enormity of the work), someone, somewhere would be able to add to what was said there. Even if what we wrote was entirely accurate someone would be able to see something more, because that's the way God intended it to be. There's ALWAYS more! His Word is personal, living, apropos, up to date, currently applicable, and therefore unable to be bound. Yet, this is exactly what has happened. We divvied up the commentary of great men of God, and great scholars and bound ourselves to their point of view, which although largely accurate in most cases, is still woefully inadequate. When we limit our understanding to a particular doctrinal view, we necessarily limit God, who cannot be, and is not ever limited. We, therefore succeed in limiting only ourselves.
God has brilliantly provided us with a Book that is able communicate His heart to us as individuals, and yet at the same time to His Corporate Body. It's small enough to be manageable, while it is also limitless and unfathomable in it's ability to teach us everything we need to know about life and godliness. His Word has an obvious Author, Who maintains a continuity of thought over thousands of years. Sixty six books, written by forty men, moved by the Holy Spirit, enable the reader to explore the height, the depth, the width, and the breadth of the mind of God.
The Scriptures illustrate God's mind and purposes in the Old Testament lives of real people, and the New Testament is the explanation of what those pictures mean. From beginning to end God speaks one message of Love. It is the Story of how God made flesh and blood into a glorious spiritual Bride for Himself. It is the story of what He desired to do, how He desired to do it, the people He used to bring about His desire, our own inability to help, the mediation of the Lord Jesus, the empowerment and transformation by the Holy Spirit to do the work, and the future glory of His purpose and intent for His Bride at His second Coming. When the disciples were asked if they would also leave the Lord, they answered, "to whom could we go? Thou alone hast the Words of eternal life". Our Lord is the Word made flesh. He has magnified His Word above His Name! How we need to attend to it and let it transform us…nothing else will do.
If our journey through life is compared to a maze, we tend to rail against the boundaries and we sometimes get stuck as we make our way to the goal. But we keep trying, and eventually, we find our way out. A lot of people in this present age have called for the removal of the boundaries, thinking that without them there would be no obstructions and that the goal would be easier to obtain. But, it doesn't work that way, instead of being easier to reach the goal some wander aimlessly having lost all direction, and some fall off the board altogether. The goal becomes just a point in time. Turns out that those annoying boundaries are essential in directing us to the way out, and ridding ourselves of them is a big mistake. The Bible speaks about life being a maze. The words "now we see through a glass darkly" describe a conundrum…a maze. What we are experiencing in this life is a riddle. It's fuzzy. We would like to see clearly…to understand, but we cannot. God has put boundaries in place that frustrate our plans. We are funneled through life anyway like it or not. But there is a better way, a "more excellent way" that can be applied to life. Contrary to popular belief it's not attained by throwing off restraint, but by believing that God knows the way and that we can trust Him to navigate the maze. Every boundary is designed to protect us and others…that's love. And love is the more excellent way. When we understand that, we understand the rest, that God is at work and we can relax. We don't have to engage in the struggle that so many people are entangled with day by day. We don't have to fight God, we don't have to try and remove the boundaries! If we love Him and we love each other (doing the right thing for our family and neighbors), the light comes on and we can see! Life begins to make sense. We live in a society that has done nothing else over the last century than to try and get rid of God's boundaries. More recently, it seems that they have succeeded in calling up, down; good, bad; right, wrong; and in trying to undermine and redefine everything that God has said and done. And He has let them do it. He 'chooses their delusions'. But in the ensuing chaos we have destroyed our children. They are the fallout. They have to deal with the outcome of the decisions made by their elders. We, could not as adults, deal with life as it was, but they as children are left to deal with a whole new world without rules or direction or help. They blindly feel about for an anchor, or float somewhere beneath the board in confusion and hopelessness. A once reasonable goal has receded into oblivion. What was simple is not bearable. They are left in a fearful world without boundaries, worse than any maze. They are asked to comprehend the burdens of adulthood while encouraged to remain children in every practical way. Too many simply take their own lives, and sometimes they take the lives of others as well. When will this Nation repent? Stay in the maze! Let the old boundaries suffice. Trust in God's order and that He knows how to get you to the end. This society is not going to get better. They are characterized by lawlessness, hubris, and ignorance. They have become blind leaders of the blind. But, although God has given us space to repent, the warnings are everywhere that that space is about to close. The Enemy has not left off in trying to coerce us all into their way of thinking. They are pounding down the door and are willing to stop at nothing to have their way. The interesting thing is that God says they will have it. So, no utopia is coming until the Lord Jesus sets up His Kingdom. All those that side with Him need to understand what is coming. Gird up your loins, put up the shield of faith, trust that He knows the way, and don't take your eyes off of Him.
