I find for me, discovering the meaning of bible verses came to me accidentally, while reflecting on how my contact never tried to improve herself as a person, I realized salt was a symbol for self-improvement; While realizing that many people liked to listen to my words, I realized light was a symbol for knowledge and revelation; While realizing I can treat God like a husband or lover and not just an abstract idea, I came to the conclusion that salt is also a symbol for submission and while reflecting on how darkness fights light, I came to the conclusion darkness symbolizes resistance and ignorance.
While realizing that some people encouraged good behaviours and others encouraged bad behaviours, I came to the conclusion that fruit is a symbol for encouragement, also while realizing my immoral friends always did less than expected or desired, I realized fruit is also a symbol for benefit.
What I am trying to express here is that my understanding of the bible was conceived by my desire to work religious imperatives and methodologies into my life and that before I developed the motive and Will to serve God, I was not able to discern the meaning of scriptures that I read, so that brings me to the verse I mentioned in the photo: scriptural understanding comes only when your motives for studying scripture are scriptural in themselves and a failure to obey the process will lead to a misapplication of scripture by not applying it in the correct context or situation. This misapplication comes from serving God with the wrong motives or lifestyle.
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