Like many believers through church history, I go through Scripture a couple of times each year. No matter how much one reads Scripture, one is always discovering the Bible’s endless riches. The reason is obvious: God is wisdom; ergo, His revealed Word is endlessly profitable. 

Some people may be intimidated by the prospect of the Bible, of reading Scripture’s sixty-six books, of trying to figure out what all the language about bloody sacrifices, days of purification, priests, tabernacles, holy and unholy places, love, biblical marriage, etc. is all about and how it coheres.

What does all that have to do with being a believer today? Must one be a historian first? Be encouraged; no, you don’t have to be a historian.

I thought it might be helpful to provide ten verses/passages (one a day) as an intro into the Christian worldview, followed by a very brief running commentary:

Question/Issue: Has God spoken? That is, does God leave His creation to guess/surmise/wonder around blindly, searching the creation for evidence of design or God’s will for our lives? 

Answer: No; God is not silent. Exactly the opposite. He has spoken creation into existence, formed man, then the woman from man, and has told them His will. In addition to that, He has superintended sixty-six authoritative books by which His people endlessly learn of Him, His wisdom, and His gospel of grace. 

Below are three fundamental passages for the people of God:

1. Luke 24:27 & 44 read, “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” and “Then he said to them, These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 

2. Psalm 19:7-11 reads, “The law of the Lord is perfect,/reviving the soul;/the testimony of the Lord is sure,/making wise the simple;/the precepts of the Lord are right,/rejoicing the heart;/the commandment of the Lord is pure,/enlightening the eyes;/the fear of the Lord is clean,/enduring forever;/the rules of the Lord are true,/and righteous altogether./More to be desired are they than gold,/even much fine gold;/sweeter also than honey/and drippings of the honeycomb./Moreover, by them is your servant warned;/in keeping them there is great reward.”

3. Micah 6:8 reads, “He has told you, O man, what is good;/and what does the Lord require of you/but to do justice, and to love kindness,/and to walk humbly with your God?”

Encouragement: Be not discouraged, Christian. God is not silent. He has spoken—through creation, through conscience, through Christ, and through His sixty-six books of sacred Scripture.