Bible Discussion Thread

Psalms 23:3 "He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." I think we can mostly all agree, that when we're first saved, we can hardly see just how much we are a ruined soul and even as we begin to learn the Word of God, it takes a long time to really understand the depths of that ruin, and how good for nothing we are. The only way for us to know is by His Spirit showing us both in the Scriptures, and in real life acknowledgement of the truth by a good and honest heart examining itself in the Light, and being able and willing to appropriately deal with what is revealed. That's a start! There are centuries and so many generations of all that people have done in the world, and the results of their sins that must be gone through and cleaned up. Like someone who has to go through a neglected area of an attic, or garage, or an old house you have to sort through what has been accumulating, or kept for whatever reasons, and then make the decision what to keep and to what we must say Good-bye. The Bible is the Divine Record of Truth about man's entire history and condition. Learning about what has happened, is not for mere academic interests and a "big head" full of information, but is in large part for how we are going to learn how to work with the Holy Spirit in cleaning up, and sorting out, and how God RESTORES our souls leading in the paths of righteousness.