ast Sunday, in our Bible study group meeting, among two other very, very important things, there is one other concept that I have repeatedly pushed forward over and over to my friends’ minds, to take the Bible seriously for what it says.

How difficult is that?

Sadly, for most, it is a very difficult thing to accomplish.

We go around church meetings and prayer meetings. People are going through unimaginable things. People who have questions. Questions that need urgent answers to. Questions like, “Why God? Why?”. And yet, I speak of myself first before others in this, that there is that tendency where we just say things like, “Oh. Don’t worry! Have hope in God! He’ll be faithful to deliver!” But then, is there really comfort in that? Is there really comfort in this piece of advice?

You see, unbiblical concepts don’t help anyone. Concepts without any basis whatsoever don’t help anyone.

Ministers tell people to have hope in God, yet they fail to explain the God that they should have hope to. They rather just leave it at, “God loves you and He won’t leave you.”, instead of giving a rock solid overarching basis of that wonderful truth, because, fact is, it just isn’t enough to know that God loves a person. It just isn’t enough to know what God can do without knowing who God is.

Let us take the Bible seriously dear brothers and sisters, only then will there be true comfort.

Only until we proclaim the eternal truth of who God is, as it is plainly written in Holy Writ, can “Therefore, this is what God did/will do for you” finally make sense to people.