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Beth Moore

25 Jan, 9 tweets, 2 min read

“If Your instruction had not been my delight, I would have died in my affliction.” Psalm 119:92 is my story in a nutshell and why I will seek the hidden treasures of Christ’s wisdom & knowledge in the pages of Scripture all my days and do all I can to drag people into it with me.

I didn’t start studying the Scriptures in an effort to have my troubled mind renewed. I started studying Scripture because I took a Bible doctrine class from a man who loved God’s words more than anyone I’d ever encountered & I caught the fever from him & still haven’t recovered.

Studied day in, day out. Everything I could get my hands on. Drove my teacher crazy. He’d send me home with stacks of materials. Say he didn’t want to see me again till I’d gone through all of them. I’d show back up the next week for more. He was ultra conservative. I’m sure it

frustrated the heck out of him that it was a woman in his class that caught the fever. I laugh as I think back on it because I always credited him & now I realize he probably would have preferred that I not. LOL. He is with the Lord now. Oh mercy, I loved him. And so did Keith.

Not that Keith ever took a class but, when this man started mentoring me one on one, he wouldn’t meet with me without Keith present. So Keith would sit right there at the table & flip through a fishing magazine. They ended up such good friends. Oh man, I wouldn’t trade any of it.

Anyway, I’ll make haste to conclude. I will say again what I have said before and will likely say till I die:

The Son of God saved my soul.
The Word of God saved my mind.

I’m going to tell y’all something. We will not make it on an hour a week in the Scriptures. We WON’T.

We wonder why we are losing our minds and it is because we are too cool for school. We spend a bare minimum of time - if any at all - studying the Scriptures and we get the rest of our indoctrination and theology from social media. And it shows. Because we’re nuts.

I believe something different could happen. I believe, having seen the depth of deception & seduction that has engulfed us, we could be shaken enough to demand our minds back. Shaken enough to seek wisdom from God himself & to set our minds on Christ & seek the hidden treasures.

It’s time to get back to Bible study. The kind of Bible study that has you in Scripture 5-10 hours a week. The kind of Bible study that gets you in deep enough to discover the kind of gold that makes you to want to study for the rest of your days.

The kind that can save a mind.

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