the word of God

Short post tonight. I am thankful for the word of God; for the wealth of encouragement and exhortation it contains and that it still impacts people today, thousands of years after the last word was written. The Bible truly is living and active, and useful for us today. I'm finding more and more how wonderful it is to read large portions of it. So much of what people quote from it is misused because they haven't taken the time to read the context surrounding it. My understanding of several verses I've grown up quoting has changed, because I read what was written before and after the verse I memorized. I'm excited to read the Bible, thanks to God!