I hear from my unchurched friends all the time: "How does a 2000-year-old book have any relevance today?"
Instead of correcting them on the fact that the Bible isn't 2000 years old (parts of it are actually older as it was written over a period of thousands of years), I simply say, "Because people were people then, and people are people now."
I usually follow that statement up with my favorite proverb, Proverbs 10:19- "When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise."
Yep- human nature never changes. Even stone-age tribesmen who thought the earth was flat had trouble keeping their traps shut when it wasn't called for. People who had never seen a computer, driven a car, built a skyscraper, or even fired a gun realized that someone who spoke too much and too often would run the risk of stretching the truth, letting loose a secret, or outright lying.
Yep- human nature never changes.
Proverbs 23:4-5 says, "Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust in your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle."
Sounds like they needed Dave Ramsey 3000 years ago.
One of the unspoken benefits of studying the Bible is that you realize that with all the advances in technology and understanding we have made in modern times, what makes up a human really hasn't changed all that much. We all need wisdom in knowing when to speak and when to stay quiet. We all need financial discipline or we will see our hard-earned wealth disappear.
And we all need a Savior to cleanse us of our sins. They needed Jesus back then, and we need Jesus now.
Yep- human nature never changes.
However, with Jesus, human nature can be redeemed and restored. This Monday, I am very thankful to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for taking my human nature and doing what no one and nothing else could do- restoring me to wholeness. My human nature may never change, but it definitely has been made new. For that I am thankful. Overwhelmed and thankful. Amen.
Instead of correcting them on the fact that the Bible isn't 2000 years old (parts of it are actually older as it was written over a period of thousands of years), I simply say, "Because people were people then, and people are people now."
I usually follow that statement up with my favorite proverb, Proverbs 10:19- "When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise."
Yep- human nature never changes. Even stone-age tribesmen who thought the earth was flat had trouble keeping their traps shut when it wasn't called for. People who had never seen a computer, driven a car, built a skyscraper, or even fired a gun realized that someone who spoke too much and too often would run the risk of stretching the truth, letting loose a secret, or outright lying.
Yep- human nature never changes.
Proverbs 23:4-5 says, "Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust in your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle."
Sounds like they needed Dave Ramsey 3000 years ago.
One of the unspoken benefits of studying the Bible is that you realize that with all the advances in technology and understanding we have made in modern times, what makes up a human really hasn't changed all that much. We all need wisdom in knowing when to speak and when to stay quiet. We all need financial discipline or we will see our hard-earned wealth disappear.
And we all need a Savior to cleanse us of our sins. They needed Jesus back then, and we need Jesus now.
Yep- human nature never changes.
However, with Jesus, human nature can be redeemed and restored. This Monday, I am very thankful to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for taking my human nature and doing what no one and nothing else could do- restoring me to wholeness. My human nature may never change, but it definitely has been made new. For that I am thankful. Overwhelmed and thankful. Amen.
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