Dear Followers, Friends, Visitors, Students and Lovers who regard and revere God’s Word recorded in the Holy Bible! If all of your ‘getting’ is to get an understanding, then, I have a question for you. Are you familiar with the meanings of Implicitly (spoken in a way that is not directly expressed) and explicitly (spoken in a way that is clearly expressed)?

Would you like to be enlightened on how you can experience true fulfillment as well as ingest a reasonable segment of the mysterious nuances that occupy the storyline of God’s creation and his plans for everything he created?

STOP! Take the time to read Psalms 97:1-13. Allow passages from this short Scripture penned by King David to be prayed to the Almighty and ask him to spend some time with you. Introduce yourself by telling him you have been born again and have accepted his Son, Christ Jesus as your personal Savior and invited the Holy Spirit to rest, rule and abide inside you as your Master Teacher. Enter into your quiet space. Shout to the Lord with a voice of triumph! Seriously proclaim that He is God all by Himself and thier is no other gods above Him.

The secret is that the Bible is inundated with symbolisms and metaphors which are the bedrock of understanding the Bible. There are two particular OT Bible Books that focus on human disciplines and principles to live by: Namely, the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Psalms.

The Book of Proverbs has 31 chapters so it can be read in just one month. Especially the months that have 31 days in them. So why not make a New Year’s resolution and select a month in 2025 that has 31 days and then make a vow to incorporate the Book of Proverbs as a reading assignment in that month. The Book of Psalms has 150 chapters. Use the remaining eleven months in 2025 to read Psalms.

Now, I am not going to ask you to do something that I would not do. As a member of a 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. telephone Bible Study Group from Monday through Friday, the co-ed group reads 4 different Bible chapters each morning. We are issued a printed calendar for each month with the four chapters listed on each of the days. A volunteer reads a chapter and anyone on the line can pray over a bible verse when the reader finishes. An assistant pastor is explicitly available to interpret any implicitly biblical verses that are misunderstood.

And the results will be that illumination and discernment of God’s Word will become more and more obvious. A much deeper understanding of God’s incorporation of humor will also become more and more obvious to the reader as you rely on the Divine Author, the Holy Spirit, and recognize and accept Him as the third Person of the Trinity. If you are reading the Bible from sun up to sun down, but not leaning on the Holy Spirit to interpret the message, you will be leaning on your own understanding.

And do I dare say, also look for some slang or idiom expressions, too. Although idioms are a very informal language and used between people who belong to the same social group, that definition can be yours if you engage your Bible concordance for translation of certain words. (Different foreign translations of the Bible originally used slang or idioms to translate sentences into English. (Although, the Christian Bible does not say Jesus Christ (God) ever laughed out loud.)

My prayer for you…

Dear Heavenly Father, Please help and empower Your people to walk circumspectly, not as fools but as Your wise children, redeeming the time because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:15-16). Continue to unveil hidden meanings of Your words. We are no longer duty bound to walk in the ways of the world, but we have been transformed by the renewing of our minds. Please, please help us to be willing to change our thoughts, how to make them new so that we will not only be a new person but will also think in a new way. Amen and Amen!

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