is the Bible a book of commandments or the breath of the living God to you?

People relate to the Bible in so many different ways – but what is the Bible as the Word of God to us? Is it only a book with good teachings? Is it only rules and commandments given by God to humanity to behave? The kind of Bible we have depends on the kind of heart we have when we come to the Bible. The Bible clearly says in 2 Tim. 3:16-17 that all the Scripture is God-breathed – the entire Bible is God’s breathing out! But to us sometimes the Bible may only be a book of letters and commandments.

We need to learn to come to the Bible as to God’s living word, the breathing out of God, and not as to a book with commandments from God to man! The psalmists are a good pattern in this, and especially Psalm 119 – the longest chapter in the Bible – shows us how much the psalmists loved the law / the word of God. They discovered that the law is sweet, precious, dear, and they treasured the law because it is the word of God whom they pursued and loved! We need to be such loving seekers of God when we come to the Bible, so that we may enjoy God in His Word when we read the Bible!

What is the Bible to YOU when you read it? Is the Bible only a book of commandments and ordinances ordained by God? Or is the Bible the breath of the living God to you, which you breathe in as you read the Word of God? Read more on this topic at,

what the Bible is to us depends on our attitude toward the Bible as God’s word

being the loving seekers with a proper heart toward God when we come to His Word

Why was the law given? What is our relationship with the law as New Testament believers? In message 8 in the Crystallization-Study of Psalms(2) we were enjoying Psalm 119, the longest Psalm / chapter in the Bible, where we see the psalmist’s love for the law, the word of God. Actually, Christ is the reality of the law – which is God’s living Word – to infuse His living substance into His loving seekers! Are you a loving seeker? We need to come to the Word of God as loving seekers so that Christ as God’s living Word would infuse His living substance into us!

Christ is the reality of the law

The law is the testimony of God, making the ark in which it was placed the ark of the testimony (Exo. 25:22), and making the tabernacle in which it was the tabernacle of the testimony (Exo. 38:21). The law is a portrait of God, showing that God is jealous, loving, righteous, truthful, and pure. Christ is the living portrait of who God is – Christ is the reality of the law as the testimony of God! Continue reading this portion at,

Christ is the reality of the law to infuse His living substance into His loving seekers!

the solid truth in the Word of God needs to become our constitution and nourishment!

As believers in the Lord we have the Spirit of God within and the Word of God without, and everything that we experience of the Lord is related to these two. If we neglect the Word of God outside of us and we don’t read it regularly, no matter how much we seek the Spirit within, our experience is not that rich and not that meanigful. Everything needs to be based on the Word of God – and the way we read and get into the Word is by praying over the Word to enjoy the Spirit in the Word. When we exercise our spirit to read the Word and pray over the Word, the written Word becomes the rhema, the living Word to nourish us and supply us!

we need to be constituted with the truth

This is not just an expression – being constituted with the truth – and it not just something we desire to do, but this is our need! If we love the Lord, we also need to love His Word and keep His Word (John 14:15), that is, get into His Word! We need to do our best to get ourselves into the divine truths revealed in the Word of God and get the truth constituted into our being.