The Bible is a wonderful teaching tool that GOD has given us to teach us the most important lessons in our lives. The lessons include how to live our lives with humility, faith, hope, kindness and most of all, love.



The lessons in the Bible are not always clear but require thought to glean their true meaning. I feel its necessary to once again mention Jesus teaching using parables. GOD laid down the law to Moses with the ten commandments, which are very direct but HIS people didn't listen so, perhaps HE devised a less direct method to get us to understand fully what HE expects from us all.



The visions in the seventeen books of the Prophets from Isaiah to Malachi are very cryptic and hard to fathom but once the meanings are explained, they stay ingrained in ones' mind. One of the books of the prophets, Jonah, often gets dismissed as fiction because he was swallowed by a fish. Nothing is too fantastical for GOD but I don't believe we were expected to focus on the fish part of the lesson. Instead, I believe we are to understand the message within the story, which is obedience to GOD, faith and mercy. Whether he spent three days in the belly of a whale or not is unimportant. I have to point out though, that Jesus makes a reference to Jonah as a historical person and Jesus could not lie.



By studying the Bible and reading it as a personal daily routine, I find myself refering to it in mind in regards to things that happen to me everyday and it continually steers me the right direction. By following the lessons in the Bible, I feel I am getting closer to doing GOD's will. What more can I ask?