Key Ideas
| Faith Fact: I will trust God’s Word.
Faith Verse 2 Timothy 3:16 (NLT) All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true. Question of the Day: Where did the Bible come from? |
Read about It
Read: 2 Peter 1:20–21
There are many ways people can get a message from one place to another. They can write a letter, send a text or an email, make a phone call, or post on social media. If they wanted to be more creative, they could hire an airplane to write a message in the sky with smoke, send a carrier pigeon, or float a message in a bottle across the ocean! All these ways would work to send a message, and yet, that’s not how God chose to send us the Bible.
God chose to use special people called prophets to write a lot of the Bible. Think of these people as God’s special messengers. The Holy Spirit inspired them to write about His truth, giving them words that one day would be part of the Bible. Although each book of the Bible may show the writer’s personal style, the content is what God told the writers to record. Because they were writing and speaking from God, the things they wrote about actually happened. We can trust that the Bible is God’s Word and that every word of it is true!
Talk about It
Question 1. Where did the prophecies in Scripture come from?
Answer 1. The prophecies came from God. (2 Peter 1:20–21)
Question 2. How do we know the people who wrote the Bible didn’t just write what they wanted to?
Answer 2. The Bible tells us this, and they were moved by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20–21)
Question 3. How is the Bible different from other books?
Answer 3. Answers will vary.
Question 4. How does knowing the Bible is God’s Word change the way you read it and study it?
Answer 4. Answers may vary.
Question 5. How does knowing the Bible is God’s Word change the way you live after reading it?
Answer 5. Answers may vary.
Pray about It
God, thank You for giving us Your Word. Help me to trust that what You say is true and that Your Word is for me. Help me to live every day according to Your Word and Your truth. Amen.