Do you ever stare at text book at school or college and wonder what the heck any of it means? I used to do that all the time. Sometimes I’m like that with the Bible too. I stare at it and blink and wonder just what the heck the person who wrote it is trying to say. See I said it, sometimes I don’t understand the Bible. I bet you thought you were the only one didn’t you. Take this passage for instance. I mean that’s a heck of a lot of words, just to say the something he has already said before. Jesus loves us; he died for us, so that we can go to Heaven. We don’t have to do lots of things in a particular order to go to Heaven, and no one can take that away from us. See how difficult was that. So, is it only me, or do you struggle with the Bible sometimes too? Well the good news is, that’s OK, maybe that’s why God often says the same thing in a different way. Maybe your mate gets this passage, I figure out another passage and you understand yet another passage. We shouldn’t struggle with the Bible, after all God gave it to us as a book to live by. If we struggle with understanding it, no need to feel dumb. I just grab the nearest leader and say things like “hey what the heck does this mean?”
