He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.
Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability. But grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.     2 Peter 3:16-18 HCSB

My husband has the ability to study massive amounts of information he knows nothing about, retain this information and test on it and pass with flying colors. Me, not so much. My nephew can do just about anything with a computer or a program or a website or whatever all those other things are called. I am totally techno-illiterate.

My other nephew can diagnose and fix just about anything mechanical. While I am probably most interested in this, I still need help and guidance because I have no idea what I am doing with a lot of mechanically inclined stuff.

First, I have to really want to learn about something to get a good understanding of it. It has to hold my attention. Secondly, I need to really study it to understand it. Because many things fall into that category where I simply don’t care to know anything about them, I have lots of things I know very little about.

When I watch them work at these things I know nothing about, they make it look so simple. This is because they understand these things and I do not. I guess if you do understand it, then it is simple.

I don’t care if you are an expert in any field you can think of or in all fields you can think of the most important knowledge we possess is the knowledge of God’s word. My pastor says the Bible will keep us out of sin and sin will keep us out of the Bible.

I can recall a time in my life where I would try to read the Bible, but I found it hard to understand. I think this was because I didn’t truly want to have a good understanding of the Bible. I didn’t want to know all the things I was doing wrong. I didn’t want to know that God was not going to excuse my sin. The truth really does hurt.

Once I surrendered my life to Christ, I wanted to know what I should and shouldn’t do. I wanted to live the way He wanted me to. I wanted to stop living in a way that grieved my heavenly Father. I wanted to please Him with the things I said and did.

I became thirsty for Bible study. The more I learned about Him the more I loved Him and the more I understood His unconditional love for me. I began to understand the great love He had for me.

There are some things I may never understand like why He loves me so and why He blesses me so much more than I deserve.

Christianity is not complicated; we just have to understand that it’s not easy. It’s not for sissies. It takes work. But it is so, so worth it.

Once you surrender your life to Christ and submit to Him, He will give you a greater understanding of the Scriptures. Even then, though, we should never neglect to turn to others with more experience in studying the Scriptures and learn from them. Don’t neglect to attend Bible studies, Sunday School, and sermons.

There are lots of things I can’t do, and I don’t understand, but I am always striving to know and understand what is most important. I encourage you to join me.

Have a great day!