To read the Bible is one of the greatest things you could ever do in your life. There are many different people from all kinds of cultures and backgrounds that begin reading the Bible for different reasons. Some reasons are pure, while others are self-serving or even with the purpose of disproving the word of God. Thankfully, God is mighty and his word is sharp like a sword that is able to turn evil hearts towards him and shut the mouths of his enemies. So God's word will never return void. Even if someone reads the Bible and still refuses to believe the truth, reading the Bible was not in vain for that person. That person now has knowledge of the truth and will be completely without excuse on judgment day.

However, if you really want to get to know God, please HIM, and learn the truth of his word so that you might walk worthy of HIM, there is a right way to approach the Bible and a wrong-way to approach the Bible. Just like there was a right and proper way to approach the LORD in the days of the temple, so too there is a right way to approach the LORD today through his word and his Son. After having read the Bible for 25 years, the Spirit of God has taught me some very important keys to really coming to know, love, and live the truth of the word of God. In this article, I will focus on the first key in how to approach the word of God that will really help us grow more properly and expediently.

The first most important thing to understand and appropriate when approaching the Bible, is to know that the book you are about to read is perfect, pure, holy, and true (if you have a King James Bible in English; all other English "versions" have been polluted and corrupted, but that topic will be for another article). The men that wrote the things in the scriptures were HAND-CHOSEN by God and filled with HIS SPIRIT and spoke and wrote absolute truth about God, man, and recorded history completely accurately. While not everything that is said in the Bible is true (the Bible records Satan lying to Eve), the record of the Bible is completely accurate and true (it accurately tells Satan's lies). These men didn't speak 80% truth and 20% error (as some TV preachers and teachers might today); they spoke 100% truth by the eternal Spirit of God. Therefore, this book should be given the highest regard, honour, and place in your life. If a University professor contradicts the Bible, we know the Bible is right, so therefore, the professor is wrong. If a pastor contradicts the Bible, we know the Bible is correct, therefore, the pastor is in error. If a church or religion has a long-standing history for centuries and teaches doctrine and practices ordinances that are contrary to what the Bible instructs us as New Testament believers to believe and practice, then the Bible is right, and that entire church or religion and all of those who follow it's teachings and commandments are wrong. It's really that simple. If your own heart, emotions, and mind are wrestling against the truth of the word of God as you read it, we already know that the Bible is LIFE, and that your heart and mind are entangled with death. The more you read and understand and obey the word of God, the more you might be shocked at how many people (including yourself) are confused, blinded, and in error. Sometimes it is not easy to deal with these things in our hearts and souls. However, before we get caught up in the emotions of things, let us get things straight in our minds and hearts: the Bible (if properly understood and interpreted) is ALWAYS RIGHT, and anyone and everyone who contradicts it or teaches things opposed to it are ALWAYS WRONG! Approach the word of God with the highest regard and honour for the truth that God will reveal to you. Don't take God's word lightly. Don't have a careless attitude about what you think matters and what you think isn't a big deal. If God put something in the Bible, it must have some importance or significance whether or not it seems important to you. God hand-chose these men to record these stories and truths so that all generations might be able to read, study, and believe these things. These words are pure and true, and we must approach the word of God with complete reverence and honour (even the parts that seem boring or irrelevant to us). If we approach the word of God with this attitude, we will find ourselves being more alert, attentive, and honorable towards God's truth, and thus, the Spirit of God will be able to use and open up his word to us in a much more efficient and effective way.

I pray this article and the future ones will help you in your approach and time in the word of God. Below are some good scriptures to meditate on regarding these truths. Blessings.

"For the word of the LORD is right, and all his works are done in truth." - Psalm 33:4

"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." - Psalm 12:6-7

"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." - Matthew 24:35

"Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:" - Isaiah 30:8

"The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth." - Ecclesiastes 12:10

"Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way." - Psalm 119:127-128

"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." - Isaiah 8:20

"God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." - Romans 3:4

"For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." - I Thessalonians 2:13