She then goes on to explain how she began to turn her study time in a different direction: rather than asking herself what the Bible could do for her, she asked herself “what am I learning about God in my study, since this book is about Him?” She also explains how before she had often let her heart lead her in her study. Wilkin begins the book talking about her own life and experience, telling about her growing passion for studying the Bible. I read the Bible asking ‘Who am I’ and ‘What should I do?’ We must read the Bible with our ears trained on hearing God’s declaration of himself.” I approached my study time asking the wrong questions. The Bible is a book that clearly reveals who God is on every page…or perhaps I really did know that the Bible was a book about God, but I didn’t realize that I wasn’t reading it as if it were. She says: “I got it backwards, I failed to realize that the Bible is a book about God.

Wilkin said something that was true of me. Was it to satisfy my own conscience? Was it to make myself feel good? Was I reading it looking for verses that spoke to me? Or was I reading it to find out more about who God was? 2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” I asked myself why I was studying the Bible. It made me take a minute to stop and realize what studying the Bible was to me. The author is a speaker and writer of women’s Bible studies and brings so much insight into studying the Bible in this book.

I received a book as a gift entitled “Women of the Word” by Jen Wilkin.

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