Episode 401: I’m Talkin…Scripture

I’m Talkin, episode 401 for December 21st, 2025.

This is Joel from the I’m Talkin microcast, where I share my thoughts on a topic that has piqued my interest this past week.

This week, we’re talking scripture.

Scripture is not a word that I think the regular world uses.

I’m not sure ever, maybe.

It’s really a church word, and therein lies the challenge for those of us who call ourselves Christians.

As Christians, we use the word scripture quite regularly.

We might call it the Bible.

We might call it God’s word.

We may call it the gospel.

Although gospel is a different word, that just talks about the truth of what’s in the scripture and the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins.

But taken as a whole, the scripture, the books and chapters that have been broken up for us in the modern world, but been preserved through the power of the Holy Spirit and the work of God. And sometimes we take it for granted because we have here in America, at least, access to many different versions.

We can purchase it online.

We can do digital versions.

We can have it read to us.

We can read it ourselves.

Lots of different ways to consume the scripture.

It is clear to me that scripture as it is recorded through the work of the Holy Spirit through human beings, through men of ages past who wrote down the words of God or were inspired by God to write down words that serve to direct people in the ways that God would have us go.

Oftentimes in our today world, in this time in which we live, we may sometimes put the Old Testament, the first books of the Bible that were written before Christ appeared, kind of on the shelf and spend much of our time in the New Testament, really to our detriment, because the gift of scripture from a holy God to an unholy people is useful.

Of course, the verse that comes to mind, and actually I don’t know the reference, and I apologize for that.

I don’t know why.

I should have just looked it up.

But it talks about scripture being useful for teaching, for reproof, for instruction.

So for us as Christians, this is not just something to be taken for granted.

This is useful.

This is a gift from God.

Lately, I have been enjoying memorization of scripture, and you know that because I use the verses that I memorized this year to make up most of the topics, if not all of the topics for this past year, for this microcast.

And so one of the things I remember as a kid was being taught that I should do daily Bible readings, that I should memorize scripture, and it was always very hard.

It is time consuming, that is for sure.

But the older I get, and I don’t know if it’s just a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, if it’s a deeper love for the word that he has given us, but there’s something powerful in the memorization, and there are verses that I memorized this year that, I don’t know, the scripture is just an amazing thing.

It’s a gift from God.

We need to take time to enjoy it.

We need to take time to have our family enjoy it with us.

We need to take time to consume and memorize and read, and it is God speaking directly to us as his people, and we need to make sure that we take time to spend in God’s word.

I know there’s prayer.

I know there’s other things that we can do in our relationship with God, but let us not neglect the scripture.

Until next week, this is Joel from the I’m Talking Microcast.