Commentary Christians

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful; We refer to Joshua 1; 8 in the Bible. Many of us love this verse not only because it is the word of God but because it has a lot of beautiful promises. Who would not like to receive these blessings if God would give them to you outright?

I, for one, am fond of this verse. I encourage every one of you reading this article to make it a habit to live your life always in the light of God’s word so that you will be guided in every way, leading you away from all untoward circumstances, doing everything right, and you will certainly achieve a good life.

Delving into the prosperity and success aspect is not what this article would focus on, although abused by various contemporary Bible-believing Christians. What we will be looking into right now is how the meditation aspect became so deteriorated. Understandably, reading and meditating on the Bible is paramount to Christian living. Thus, we see a lot of them reading their Bibles every day.

Reading the Bible and doing what it says is what the verse is talking about, and carefully contemplating everything written in it day and night so that you are careful to follow everything written there. The problem arises when the reader finds the reading material so difficult to understand, especially when we look into the laws and chapters explicitly written for a particular group or people at a specific time in the past and associate them with the present time and circumstance the reader is in. 

Bible Interpretation is so complex that most of the time, you would require the assistance of a Bible commentary from a bible scholar or those with doctorate degrees in biblical interpretations to know the meaning of what you are reading. It is not harmful to refer your understanding of the Bible to these scholars and doctors in theology because they are God-given resource people so that we understand how God would want it.

Commentaries are there for reference and guidance only. These are not the replacement for the word of God. We see people nowadays who have totally disregarded the original texts in the Bible and have settled entirely on the commentaries and reversely made the Bible their reference instead. They take the true spiritual enlightenment from the comments, making them appear to be bible truths.