Why I Love Scripture

I've fallen in love with Scripture. I can't really explain it, but it's awesome. The words that God has spoken to us to give us life, teaching, correction, and everything we need are truly some of the most precious treasures man can have, along with the salvation that comes through God-given faith and the fact that we're adopted into the family of God.

In fact, one of my favorite passages in Scripture is precisely because it's about Scripture. That passage is 2 Timothy 3:14-17:

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (ESV)

Pastor and theologian Dr. R.C. Sproul wrote a book titled Knowing Scripture, which exegetes this passage. I won't go into all the detail, but it basically says this passage describes how the Scripture is all-sufficient for us to be equipped and wise in accordance to Biblical wisdom, which begins with "the fear of the Lord" (Prov. 1:7). It is how we learn of and teach salvation. It has the standards of Christian living. It has the commands of God, breathed-out by his very mouth. It trains us to be righteous. And every time we open it up, the Holy Spirit is there to help us understand it. What's not to love?

"And they will all be taught by God" (John 6:45).