YOUR Burning Bush

The Bible is God’s burning bush. It is there that we encounter him and there that he speaks. How we react is proof of who we are.

As a book, the Bible is in a class of its own, distinct from every other book ever written. It brings God into focus and brims over with his greatness. It is drama, the drama of time, a window through which we see God striding through the centuries with awesome power and majesty.

We must be clear about one thing: that the purpose of Scripture is to show us God and inspire our trust in him. The Bible is a manual of faith in God that has been given to us “so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim 3:17). It is God’s voice in the burning bush calling out to us as he called out to Moses – urging us to surrender our questions and doubts, abandon our misgivings and go forward with him. The path will open up as we walk, just as the sea opened up before Moses.

Moses’ encounter with God in the burning bush launched him on a vast, ridiculously impossible and hair-raising mission; armed with no more than a shepherd’s crook he was pitted against the world’s greatest military power. Hand in hand with the Lord, he set out on that daunting task and became the greatest name in the ancient world.

History, as recorded by human authors, naturally reflects their outlook on life. The Bible is God’s summary of events; it presents the divine view of things. It is utterly dependable; as Psalm 119:160 says, “all [God’s] words are true”. The Bible begins with an end and ends with a beginning, God ending the work of creation and beginning a new heaven and a new earth.

Scripture is not there to make us think but to make us act. It is neither an academic treatise nor an encyclopaedia full of explanations for anything and everything. It does not offer mere information to satisfy human curiosity, nor set out to crack riddles. Faith is a flashlight. Switch it on and darkness is no problem!

This is just a very short overview, but I trust it highlights key-points in your heart. Blessed? Please let me know. REINHARD BONNKE.