“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16

Where do you look when you want to learn how to play a game? How do you know what ingredients to put in chocolate chip cookies? There are rules for games and there are recipes (directions) for baking cookies.

Where can you find the rules and directions for life? In the Bible.

Question 14 in the First Catechism (Great Commission Publications, 2003) asks, “Where do you learn how to love and obey God?” The answer is: “In the Bible alone.”

The Bible contains answers for life’s questions. It contains help for life’s problems. God inspired men to write the Bible, so that we would have a rule book and directions for how we should live our lives.

Romans 15:4 says, “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.”

What rules for life have you learned from the Bible? What passages in the Bible have given you hope?