He has been dead now for a long time, but he still speaks. This is the doctor who can encourage us with the proper diet.
He was great on texts, the doctor was. When he had a point to prove, he’d just go through the Bible and drive all the texts ahead of him like a flock of sheep; and then, if there was a text that seemed against him, why, he’d come out with his Greek and Hebrew and kind of chase it around a spell, just as you see a fellow chase a contrary bell-weather, and make him jump the fence after the rest. I tell you, there wasn’t no text in the Bible that could stand against the doctor when his blood was up.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
This is exactly what the Scriptures encourage us to do:
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Of all the time-wasting endeavors, the study of the Scriptures will not fit into that category. Throughout eternity, you will be thankful for the investment in the pursuit of truth.
Give it some thought.
Gary