The Daily Guide
Picturing God's truths
I use an everyday illustration because human nature grasps truth more readily that way.
Romans 6:19 - J.B.Phillips' translation
We get many, brilliant illustrations given us in God's Word! Are we always picturing them rightly though? This morning, for example, I read a well-known illustration in James' epistle. In the Amplified Bible I read, "For the one who wavers is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither." My previous picture of this illustration had been inaccurate! I'd been seeing waves from the shore. Now I know I have to see the surge at sea. Boy, does that impact me as to what I'm like when I'm irresolute! Ja.1:6.
Getting the correct picture of God's illustrations and having your ill-formed ones corrected is important. What you've picked up from the language chosen for an illustration in a translation of God's Word may not be the one the translators were trying to get across to you! How is this possible? It happens because they wrote in one particular time and setting and you live in another! What are you then to do? Pray and ask, "Lord, keep bringing to me by Your Spirit ever more helpful pictures of your illustrations!"
Godly men and women have given us a wealth of good, alternative, Bible translations designed to better enable us recognise the richness of God's wealth of counsel in His Word. Make use of these whenever you can. Keep your main Bible with its translation of tried and proven accuracy but also look to other, fresher translations to enhance your insight into the messages of Christ and God's prophets.
Let God's Spirit show you more!
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