In describing how great of a spiritual blessing we have from God through His Word, I don’t think I could possibly overstate just how great it is.  God’s Word tells us so much.  Here is a partial list:

How this world came into being(i.e. creation).

How we came into being(also creation).

What were the earliest people like(spoiler alert – they were just like us)?

Did God interact with people in the beginning(and thereafter)?  If so, how?

Were there godly people back then(spoiler alert – yes)?  Were there ungodly people back then(spoiler alert – also, yes)?  How bad were they(spoiler alert – you don’t want to know)?

How did we get so many seemingly different(yet really the same) groups of people(ethnicity, language, etc.)?

Did God have a plan on what to do about bad people?

What was God like when He was on earth in human form(i.e. Jesus)?

What were the lives of early believers of Jesus like?

How popular was the church?  Did it grow rapidly?  Slowly?  How did it happen?

How long did it take for the truth about God to be corrupted?

The Bible provides answers to the above questions, as well as so many more.  Does the Bible answer every question?  No. 

Here are some things the Bible does not tell us:

How long did everybody live?

How could a man as wise as Solomon fail to idolatry?

Why did Job, such an incredibly faithful follower of God, have to suffer so much?

What were people like outside of Israel and the lands in that vicinity?

Why did the nation of Israel turn against God after He had done so much for them?

What did Jesus look like?  What was He like as a child(we see about three snapshots in time before He was about 30 years old)?

Why couldn’t the religious elites(like the Pharisees and Sadducees) see that Jesus was the Messiah?

What happened to Joseph(Mary’s husband), as he is not mentioned after an incident in which Jesus was twelve years old?

Where was the apostle Paul when Jesus was preaching in Judea and Galilee?

How did the apostles die(we know what happened to Judas and James the brother of John)?

Why are there no books in the Bible written by 10 of the original 12 apostles(only John and Peter were writers in the New Testament)?

The Acts of the Apostles, usually just referred to as the Book of Acts, doesn’t really mention any of the twelve apostles other than Peter and John after the second chapter.  What were they doing?  Where did they go?

Did the apostles(other than Judas) remain faithful?

We do not know the answers to these questions(although we could speculate about some of them).  But what the Bible does tell us is how we got here(creation), what happened after God created people(sin) and that God had a plan in place to help redeem us from the destruction that results from our sin(each of us for our own sins – Ez. 18:20).

We see how God used imperfect people to bring His plan into fruition.  He used people like Jacob(the founding father of the nation of Israel), who did a lot of terrible things in his life.  He used people like David, a murdering adulterer, to help His plan along.  God used imperfect people because all people are imperfect.  Even the great ones, like Abraham, Moses and David, three men who are highly regarding during the first century AD, were not without fault.  And it is exactly why we needed someone different, someone better than any of them, to save us.  And that is what Jesus did.

Jesus wasn’t just a really nice person.  He was that.  He wasn’t just a great teacher.  He was that, too.  He wasn’t just God.  He was definitely that, but all of those things combined don’t help us much, since we have a problem . . . a big problem . . . a sin problem.  God knew that.  And because He knew that AND because He knew we needed a perfect sacrifice to pay for those sins, He sent His Son to live a perfect(i.e. sinless) life.  But even more than that, Jesus had to be a perfect sacrifice to pay for our sins.  So that is exactly what He did.  And the Bible tells us about Him.  Does it tell us everything?  Not even close!  But it tells us what we need to know to believe in Him, and by believing in Him, we can have everlasting life(John 20:30-31).  That is the purpose of the Bible.  That is the absolute intention of the Bible.  The totality of the message is to provide us with the information we need to be able to believe in Jesus, and with that belief we can know what we need to do to be saved from our own sins. . . to have eternal life with God.  Let’s not be satisfied that we think we have a pretty good idea of what we need to do.  Let’s be sure.  Let’s be positively, beyond a shadow of a doubt, certain.  Our eternal soul rests upon knowing and being correct.  God blessed us with the information we need to know exactly what to do.  No doubts.  No questions.  Just a calm assurance(I John 5:13).  God loves us.  He doesn’t want us to have doubts, so He left His Word so that we could be confident.  Not cocky or braggadocios, but serenely confident.  And not confident in ourselves, but in Him(Jer. 17:7; II Cor. 3:4-5).  Let’s get confident, using His Word, and let’s tell other people about our confidence, not so we can appear superior, but so we can help them in the same way that we needed help.